cannibalism, and Halloween candy. But underneath the sometimes-amusing subject matter are real fact checkers who investigate the claims, uncover evidence, and present conclusions. And it’s not only outlandish stories, but also any news-worthy topic, including politics, culture and global events. Sn...
We propose that political claims continue to be aggressively fact-checked, but by teams of individuals with diverse sociopolitical views; for example, by pairing fact-checkers from major liberal and conservative news sources. This would add little, if any, cost. The media should abandon fact-...
Can fact checkers disagree about what constitutes a whopper? I guess they can and do if there is a contentious primary going on. If fact checkers can’t agree about such a important historical question that seems like it ought to have a straightforward answer, how can it be rightly called ...
for Fact-Checkers Submit a claim to us We do the verification More Checks View more Government Policy Claim that Oyo has been split to two states is misleading! TUNDE Ednut, a popular social media influencer and blogger, has claimed... ...
Purpose Fact-checking has been changing in recent years from an initial stage in which fact-checkers were more concerned with political discourse to a stage in which combating misinformation becomes the primary purpose. This work examines more closely th
On Tuesday, Full Fact published a 46-page report breaking down their findings, which included a list of "recommendations" for ways Facebook could improve their third party fact-checking programme. Before we get to that, how does the service work? As the report explains, fact-checkers work th...
Kessler also said that Democrats were just as quick to get annoyed with the Post's fact checkers as Republicans when he rated a statement from a Democratic politician as false. For more of Major's conversation with Kessler, download "The Takeout" podcast on Art19, iTunes, GooglePlay, Spoti...
This goes on and on and on… but it continues by pointing out that one of their main “fact checkers” Kim LaCapria “has also been a sex-and-fetish blogger who went by the pseudonym ‘Vice Vixen’.” [LaCapria] described her blog as a lifestyle website ‘with a specific fo...
The race for fact-checkers to keep pace with the mounting information is already difficult and is only going to get harder, which is why you need the right research tools. Open web searches take time, and they aren't always verifiable. Conversely, aspecialised research platformthat includes gl...
local maximum temperatures where fires got started, have not exceeded the warmth of the 1930s. So, one must ask who is fact checking the so-called fact-checkers. As Mr. Wrightstone accurately reported, the changes in droughts, fires, and heat waves do not correlate with rising CO2, but ...