Fact checks
Here I am collecting different sources about fact checks. Let's find the right information in this turbulent sea of daily news.
Collection by Mario Clemente
The Washington Post
Seeing isn’t always believing: Google starts fact-checking images
· Google will label some images with a fact-check label, expanding the feature from search and YouTube. · Shared by 20, including Mario Clemente, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Tom Raftery (Mastodon: @tomraftery@mas.to), Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Vinod Sharma
Judd Legum
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
6 min read · · 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… · Shared by 77, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Prof Michael E. Mann, Mario Clemente
The New Yorker
Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check
4 min read · · Researching his role in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the actor embeds in The New Yorker’s fact-checking department. · Shared by 67, including Neil Lee, Christian Fahrenbach, Jane, Mario Clemente, Mathew Ingram, Boas Ruh, Kelsey D. Atherton, Dominic Grzbielok, Esther Schindler
medium.com
Getting it right: here’s how to improve your fact-checking
5 min read · · Fact-checking works. Alexios Mantzarlis from the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter gave us some advice. · Shared by 13, including Mario Clemente, Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa
Poynter
We're launching a podcast about fact-checking and misinformation
2 min read · · Starting today, we’re tackling some of the biggest questions facing fact-checking in audio form. · Shared by 18, including Mark Kaigwa, Mathew Ingram, Mario Clemente
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 · · Shared by 74, including luis antónio santos, Stephanie A Kowalski, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Nieman Reports, Dan Gillmor, Jeremy Caplan, Simon Carless, Alina Fichter, Mario Clemente, Mathew Ingram, Mark Little
factcheckingday.com
International Fact-Checking Day
1 min read · · 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… · Shared by 15, including Mario Clemente, mdy, Arie Goldshlager
CJR
The Rise and Fall of Facts
5 min read · · 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… · Shared by 68, including Lluís Codina, Mario Clemente, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Doug Sundheim, Jane
The Nation
Democracy Dies From Bad Fact Checking
4 min read · · The Washington Post is feeding into Trump’s agenda by turning fact checking into an ideological weapon. · Shared by 16, including Mathew Ingram, Mario Clemente, Liam Bright, Bjorn Larsen
Poynter
Is it time to completely rethink fact-checking?
7 min read · · 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… · Shared by 19, including Will Hoekenga, Mathew Ingram, Veronika Lampion, Mario Clemente, Mark Kaigwa, Lluís Codina
Nieman Lab
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
4 min read · · 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." · Shared by 121, including Sylvie Reinhard, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Peter Wennersten, Kim Dik, Lluís Codina, Mathew Ingram, Thomas Power, Jakub Ferenc, Dominik Grolimund, Tauno, Mario Clemente, Marcos aka @marcos_v2@techhub.social, Nils Hitze, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mark Kaigwa, Luis Bravo, Tac Anderson
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire From Fact-Checking
· 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… · Shared by 26, including Judd Legum, Matt Navarra, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Mathew Ingram, Mario Clemente, Bjorn Larsen
Poynter
Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
3 min read · · Visit the post for more. · Shared by 64, including DHH, @luca@vis.social, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , luis antónio santos, Leni "Lee" 🎮⚔️, Thomas Power, Frederic Filloux, Mario Clemente, Fabrizio Bianchi, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mathew Ingram, Philipp., Charles Baldwin, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange
TechCrunch
Snopes and AP stop fact checking for Facebook
5 min read · · 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. · Shared by 31, including Mario Clemente, Charles Baldwin, Bjorn Larsen, Mark Kaigwa, Mathew Ingram
Engadget
WhatsApp and WHO create a chatbot to share reliable coronavirus info
1 min read · · 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… · Shared by 20, including Mario Clemente
The Verge
Snopes forced to scale back fact-checking in face of overwhelming COVID-19 misinformation
2 min read · · Shared by 18, including Mario Clemente, Esther Schindler
