Fact checks
Here I am collecting different sources about fact checks. Let's find the right information in this turbulent sea of daily news.
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The Washington Post
Seeing isn’t always believing: Google starts fact-checking images
From 2020 · Google will label some images with a fact-check label, expanding the feature from search and YouTube.
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Judd Legum
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
6 min read · From 2020 · This is a special joint edition of Popular Information and HEATED, a climate newsletter by journalist Emily Atkin. HEATED is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of the planet earth. Sign…
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The New Yorker
Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check
4 min read · From 2018 · Researching his role in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the actor embeds in The New Yorker’s fact-checking department.
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medium.com
Getting it right: here’s how to improve your fact-checking
5 min read · From 2017 · Fact-checking works. Alexios Mantzarlis from the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter gave us some advice.
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Poynter
We're launching a podcast about fact-checking and misinformation
2 min read · From 2018 · Starting today, we’re tackling some of the biggest questions facing fact-checking in audio form.
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Nieman Lab
Fact-checking can’t do much when people’s “dueling facts” are driven by values instead of knowledge » Nieman Journalism Lab
4 min read · From 2019
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factcheckingday.com
International Fact-Checking Day
1 min read · From 2017 · International Fact-Checking Day is promoted by the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter in partnership with fact-checking organizations around the world. International Fact-Checking Day is…
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CJR
The Rise and Fall of Facts
5 min read · From 2019 · In his 1964 Harper’s Magazine article on fact-checking, “There Are 00 Trees in Russia,” Otto Friedrich related the story of an unnamed magazine correspondent who had been assigned a profile of…
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The Nation
Democracy Dies From Bad Fact Checking
4 min read · From 2019 · The Washington Post is feeding into Trump’s agenda by turning fact checking into an ideological weapon.
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Poynter
Is it time to completely rethink fact-checking?
7 min read · From 2017 · The basic format of political fact-checking is identical the world over: Start from a widely circulated claim by a public figure, then rate the truthfulness of its objectively verifiable components…
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Nieman Lab
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
4 min read · From 2017 · The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: "news by the people and for the people."
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The Wall Street Journal
Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire From Fact-Checking
From 2019 · Facebook plans to allow opinion pieces and satire to be exempted from its fact-checking program, according to people familiar with the matter, as the social-media giant grapples with how to stop the…
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Poynter
Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
3 min read · From 2019 · Visit the post for more.
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TechCrunch
Snopes and AP stop fact checking for Facebook
5 min read · From 2019 · Two of Facebook's four fact-checking partners in the U.S. have left the program as of the beginning of this year: Snopes, which recently rebuffed reports that its relationship with Facebook was strained, and the Associated Press. Both confirmed they are leaving the program, but left the possibility of future collaboration open.
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Engadget
WhatsApp and WHO create a chatbot to share reliable coronavirus info
1 min read · From 2020 · Yesterday, WhatsApp unveiled a coronavirus fact-checking hub in partnership with the WHO, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Programme. That's intended to share the latest news and advice…
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The Verge
Snopes forced to scale back fact-checking in face of overwhelming COVID-19 misinformation
2 min read · From 2020
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