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• https://princetonlibrary.org/guides/misinformation-disinformation-malinformation-a-guide/

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation

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• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous

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• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking,_Facts_Count

2025

Meta/Facebook-Instagram-Threads Press Release

UPDATED | JANUARY 7, 2025

In the coming months, Meta will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and begin moving to a community-based program called Community Notes. We are beginning with rolling out Community Notes in the US, and will continue to improve it over the course of the year before expansion to other countries (read more here).

(Sample) Community Notes form used by X in 2024

Today in the rest of the world, we rely on fact-checkers who are independent from Meta and certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or, in Europe, the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) to address misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. While fact-checkers focus on the legitimacy and accuracy of information, we focus on taking action by informing people when content has been rated.

• https://transparency.meta.com/features/how-fact-checking-works

• https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes

January 14

Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories

• https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/tech/meta-fact-checkers-wildfire-conspiracy-theories/index.html

Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department,” said Alan Duke, a former CNN journalist who co-founded the fact-checking outlet Lead Stories, one of dozens of such organizations around the world funded by Meta.

Meta has not announced when it will formally end its fact-checking program, but a person familiar with the program said it could be eliminated as soon as March. The decision will force some of Meta’s fact-checking partners to lay off staff or shut down once the company’s financial support dries up.

January 8

Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’

• https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/media/fact-checkers-meta-zuckerberg-facebook-bias/index.html

Meta’s surprise decision to scrap its fact-checking partnerships – blindsiding journalists involved in the program and putting some out of work – is part of a much bigger shift in media and politics.

The very notion of fact-checking is under assault by a wide array of fact-challenged politicians and interest groups. Particularly on the right, “fact-check” has been turned into a dirty word, one that presupposes the fact-checker is actually suppressing some inconvenient truth.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg played right into that assumption on Tuesday when he insulted fact-checkers as “too politically biased” and said they “have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the U.S.”

Destroyed trust among whom, exactly? Zuckerberg didn’t say. But President-elect Donald Trump, who keeps fact-checkers busy and hates being corrected by them, welcomed Meta’s changes. So did the wide world of pro-Trump media. “Trump gets results,” Fox’s Laura Ingraham said Tuesday night, touting Meta’s “major shakeup.”

Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network, said the decision “will hurt social media users who are looking for accurate, reliable information to make decisions about their everyday lives and interactions with friends and family.”

Holan, the former editor of PolitiFact, challenged Zuckerberg’s claim about bias, saying “that attack line comes from those who feel they should be able to exaggerate and lie without rebuttal or contradiction.”

January 7

PolitiFact Responds to Meta (Facebook-Instagram-Threads)

• https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jan/07/meta-ending-third-party-fact-checking-partnership/

Meta ends fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame

Independent fact-checkers say that Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to stop using their work bodes ill for truth online

Via The Washington Post

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/10/meta-fact-checking-politics-trump/

When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer Prize for its work covering the 2008 presidential campaign, the board praised the nascent outlet for using “probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web” to examine more than 750 political claims, “separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.”

The award felt novel at the time “and really put fact-checking on the map,” said Bill Adair, who founded PolitiFact in 2007.

“It was a moment of promise when people really believed that the internet could be a positive force to empower people around the world with the information they need to make decisions about voting in good and powerful ways,” he said.

It didn’t work out that way. Politicians attacked fact-checking as a partisan infringement on speech. And the internet and social media platforms spurred an ecosystem that prioritized viral content and capturing clicks over the lofty goal of providing accurate information...

“This is all about politics,” said Adair, who is now a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University and the author of “Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.”

“The announcement was intensely political,” said Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth and longtime scholar of political spin, misinformation and polarization. “It seems very clearly designed to appeal to Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who might otherwise target Meta with investigations, regulatory enforcement or negative publicity.”

 

Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts.

It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

• https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-checking?unlocked_article_code=1.nU4.F51z.ummudnnTmVst&smid=url-share

Meta ends fact checks, will adopt X-style ‘community notes’ in Trump era

• https://wapo.st/4h223hP

Meta goes ‘MAGA’: Facebook adjusts fact-checking approach as Zuckerberg touts ‘free expression’ and cites ‘cultural tipping point’

Via MarketWatch

Meta’s trust and safety and content-moderation teams will be moved out of California, and the company’s U.S.-based content-review work will be done in Texas. “As we work to promote free expression, I think that will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams,” Zuckerberg said.

“Finally, we’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” he added, pointing to “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship” in Europe and “secret courts” in Latin America that can order companies to quietly take things down. “China has censored our apps from even working in the country,” he said.

During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday, Trump was asked whether Zuckerberg was directly responding to threats the president-elect made toward him in the past. “Probably,” he replied.

• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meta-goes-maga-facebook-adjusts-fact-checking-as-zuckerberg-touts-free-expression-and-cultural-tipping-point-754c84f6

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The reaction of PolitiFact, an initiative of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) who've led fact-checking in journalism, was to explain basics of getting accurate information to readers and users of online and other publications.

Poynter president Neil Brown explained in a statement that "Meta has always set its own tools and rules, while Poynter’s PolitiFact and Meta’s other fact-checking partners offered independent reviews and showed their sources."

“To blame fact-checkers is a disappointing cop-out and it perpetuates a misunderstanding of its own program. Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It's time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking.”

Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, said in a statement, “This decision will hurt social media users who are looking for accurate, reliable information to make decisions about their everyday lives and interactions with friends and family. Fact-checking journalism has never censored or removed posts; it’s added information and context to controversial claims, and it’s debunked hoax content and conspiracy theories.”

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2024

A Fact-Checking Professional Who Has, Over the Years, Worked Hard to Put Facts into the Light

(If you haven't heard of him) -- Here's Daniel Dale @Work

• https://www.cnn.com/profiles/daniel-dale

0ctober 2024

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/18/politics/fact-check-trump-october-immigration/index.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-fox-townhall/index.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/trump-fact-check-john-deere-economy/index.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/fact-check-vance-trump-political-opponents/index.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/politics/fact-check-harris-univision-teleprompter-false/index.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/politics/fact-check-trump-pennsylvania-speeches/index.html

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-foreign-policy/index.html

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September 12, 2024

September 10, 2024, Screen Grab from Broadcast Video, Live Presentation ABC

* https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/10/presidential-debate-live-fact-check-harris-trump/

September 11, 2024, the Day After the Debate...

The US Presidential Debate Was One for the History Books

Question: Did the ABC Moderators Intrude?

GreenPolicy360: The moderators and fact-checking orgs were doing their work: Facts count

Fact Checking, Facts Count

Disinformation - Online - Dangerous

Fact is, Facts Matter

Wikipedia adds a 'Truthiness' definition of the modern term that's become a meme -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding U.S. politics during the late 20th and early 21st centuries because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion.

GreenPolicy360 continues a multi-year defense of facts, science, & 'critical thinking skills' ... Green Education

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking,_Facts_Count

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GlobalFact, the Eleventh Global Fact-Checking Summit

Presented by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute in partnership with Zašto ne, GlobalFact 11 (June 26-28, 2024) empowers fact-checkers to uphold the industry’s highest standards of excellence through discussions, training and networking events with globally renowned fact-checking experts.

What is GlobalFact?

GlobalFact is the world’s largest and most impactful annual summit for professional fact-checking.

Fact-checkers and supporters of fact-checking discuss industry-wide challenges, exchange best practices and build collaborative solutions to improve our shared information ecosystem.

• https://www.globalfact11.com/event/0116938c-093b-4f34-afb7-09c3312aaa98/summary

• https://www.poynter.org/event/globalfact-11/

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Tens of Millions of Visits, Interactions & Shares

Connecting & sharing world changing stories

GreenPolicy360 journeys across 50+ years of the modern environmental movement

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Facts are a highest priority @GreenPolicy360/StraDem

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking | Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360
• https://reporterslab.org/fact-checkers-extend-their-global-reach-with-391-outlets-but-growth-has-slowed/ | 100+ Countries-391 Fact-Checking Sites (2022)
• https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ | 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)
• https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ | 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)
• http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ | 37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)
• https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ | MediaWise for Teens
• http://www.politifact.com/ | PolitiFact via Poynter
• https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ | Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network
• http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ | Poynter Int'l List
• https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ | Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Table_of_Contents_(ToC)_GreenPolicy360

• https://strategicdemands.com/http-www-strategicdemands-com/

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2023

The Poynter Institute

• https://www.poynter.org/about/

The Tampa Bay Times | Poynter home of fact-checking pioneer, PolitiFact, announced today (Dec. 23) that it is expanding PolitiFact's coverage beginning in January 2024. Good news, especially here 'on the home front', as GreenPolicy360's global network originates in Tampa Bay.

GreenPolicy360 has been following PolitiFact from its initial beginnings (launched in 2007). PolitiFact has changed the national and international news business as their original idea and model of a fact-checking news operation has grown into industry-wide fact checking around the world. It is evident that the need for focus on facts and evidence in these times of dis- and mis-information is an essential contribution by a free press and online fact checking sources that enable accurate judgment, decision-making, and a successful democracy.

The online world is especially convoluted these days... the demands for fact-checking of memes and gaslighting, dis- and mis-info is 24/7/365

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking

• https://reporterslab.org/fact-checkers-extend-their-global-reach-with-391-outlets-but-growth-has-slowed/

We at GreenPolicy360 are pleased to have shared the Poynter PolitiFact story and expansion of its 'best practices' networking model. At the end of last year, 2022, there were 424 fact-checking websites, up from just 11 in 2008, according to an annual census by the Duke University Reporters’ Lab. Poynter's PolitiFact and over 100 news publishing participants in a global fact checking network are confronting/battling an online proliferation of dis/misinformation, lies and political manipulation. Today and going forward, fact-checking operations are playing an increasingly essential role, delivering information, facts, opening eyes and bringing profoundly important veritas to people in every nation, community, market and political system.

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At the end of last year, there were 424 fact-checking websites, up from just 11 in 2008, according to an annual census by the Duke University Reporters’ Lab.

• https://reporterslab.org/misinformation-spreads-but-fact-checking-has-leveled-off/

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Political Pushback to Fact Checking Is Rising as Fact Checking Grows

In What Countries Does Facebook (Meta) Provide Fact-Checking Services?

List of independent FB-Instagram/Meta fact-checking partners, by country

• https://www.facebook.com/formedia/mjp/programs/third-party-fact-checking/partner-map

Meta Touts Its Fact Checking

• https://www.facebook.com/formedia/blog/third-party-fact-checking-how-it-works/

Meta

To fight the spread of misinformation and provide people with more reliable information, Meta partners with independent third-party fact-checkers that are certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). We don't think a private company like Meta should be deciding what’s true or false, which is exactly why we have a global network of fact-checking partners who independently review and rate potential misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Their work enables us to take action and reduce the spread of problematic content across our apps.

Since 2016, our fact-checking program has expanded to include more than 90 organizations working in more than 60 languages globally. The focus of the program is to address viral misinformation – particularly clear hoaxes that have no basis in fact. Fact-checking partners prioritize provably false claims that are timely, trending and consequential.

Meta's approach to fact-checking

Meta and fact-checkers work together in three ways:

Identify

Fact-checkers can identify hoaxes based on their own reporting, and Meta also surfaces potential misinformation to fact-checkers using signals, such as feedback from our community or similarity detection. Our technology can detect posts that are likely to be misinformation based on various signals, including how people are responding and how fast the content is spreading. We may also send eligible content to fact-checkers when we become aware that it may contain misinformation. During major news events or for trending topics when speed is especially important, we use keyword detection to gather related content in one place, making it easy for fact-checkers to find. For example, we’ve used this feature to group content about COVID-19, global elections, natural disasters, conflicts and other events.

Review

Fact-checkers review and rate the accuracy of stories through original reporting, which may include interviewing primary sources, consulting public data and conducting analyses of media, including photos and video.

Fact-checkers do not remove content, accounts or Pages from Facebook. We remove content when it violates our Community Standards, which is separate from our fact-checking program.

Act

Each time a fact-checker rates a piece of content as false, we significantly reduce the content’s distribution so that fewer people see it. We notify people who previously shared the content or try to share it that the information is false, and apply a warning label that links to the fact-checker’s article, disproving the claim with original reporting. We also use AI to scale the work of fact-checkers by applying warning labels to duplicates of false claims, and reducing their distribution.

We know this program is working and people find value in the warning screens we apply to content after a fact-checking partner has rated it. We surveyed people who had seen these warning screens on-platform and found that 74% of people thought they saw the right amount or were open to seeing more false information labels, with 63% of people thinking they were applied fairly.

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The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation. We enable fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration. IFCN promotes the excellence of fact-checking to more than 100 organizations worldwide through advocacy, training and global events.

• https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/

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2022

GlobalFact9

The world’s largest fact-checking summit

The only conference dedicated to fact-checking worldwide, organized by the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute

• https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/

The 2022 Global Fact conference in Oslo, Norway convenes in-person after two years of virtual conferences. Previous Global Fact conferences were held in cities such as London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Rome, and Cape Town.

More via Poynter Institute / Poynter.org

• https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/globalfact-9-joan-donovan-jane-lytvynenko-anne-applebaum/

• https://www.poynter.org/global-fact-9/

• https://www.poynter.org/tag/global-fact/

• https://globalfact9.com/register

June 20, 2022

OSLO, Norway – GlobalFact is an annual fact-checking and journalism conference hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network. This year marks the world’s largest fact-checking summit’s ninth iteration. It will be held in Oslo, Norway, from June 22 to 25, at Oslo Metropolitan University. Virtual tickets are available.

Here’s more about six of the headliners at this year’s GlobalFact.

Dr. Joan Donovan is a leading disinformation researcher and research director at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, which focuses on the intersection of media, politics and public policy. She is also director of the Technology and Social Change Project, — or TaSC — which examines methods of media manipulation, control over public conversation and democracy influence. The Shorenstein Center website says TaSC “facilitates workshops for journalists, policy makers, technologists, and civil society organizations on how to detect, document, and debunk media manipulation campaigns.”

TaSC’s Media Manipulation Casebook compiles and aggregates information, theory, successful implementations and case studies related to dis- and misinformation. The project is a “team of interdisciplinary researchers analyzing how contemporary technologies of communication are used by different groups to bring about social change, for better or worse.” It has examined and documented information warfare of all stripes, including that of the Milk Tea Alliance, the “Save the Children” conspiracy hashtag and coordinated hashtag campaigns targeting elections in Chile.

Donovan is also a columnist at MIT technology review, and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other nationally-recognized publications. She is published in various academic journals, including Nature, Social Media + Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Information, Communication & Society, and Social Studies of Science. Her latest book, “Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America,” describes how the Jan. 6 riots manifested from online communities.

Donovan co-created the beaver emoji and has coined many of the terms used in contemporary disinformation media and research.

Jane Lytvynenko is a researcher at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center and at TaSC.

“I’m focusing on devising a training curriculum for newsrooms and academics, auditing research and digging into media manipulation cases globally,” Lytvynenko writes of her work.

Lytvynenko was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News, where she broke stories exposing online manipulation campaigns. She has also independently reported for outlets such as The Guardian, VICE, The Atlantic and MIT Tech Review.

As a native Ukrainian, Lytvynenko has written much about the Russia-Ukraine war. In February, when fighting first broke out, Lytvynenko published “I Can’t Stop Watching a Livestream in Kyiv,” detailing some of the history of the conflict, images of the war and her thoughts while consuming news and watching Reuters’ livestreams of both Kyiv and Maidan.

Lytvynenko has written in Spanish, English and German.

Anne Applebaum is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book, “Gulag: A History.” She has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, previously publishing such books as “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” and “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956.” Applebaum was a Washington Post columnist for over 15 years and a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw in the late ’80s and early ’90s, during the fall of Polish communism.

Her most recent book, “Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism,” describes a trend among “some of her contemporaries” of eschewing liberal ideas of democracy and favoring “strongman cults, nationalist movements or one-party states.”

“People are not just ideological,” Applebaum writes. “They are also practical, pragmatic, opportunist. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents.” The book describes common patterns between the “politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and others who have abandoned democratic ideals” in favor of “illiberalism.”

Applebaum has published articles in Polish, Spanish, English, German and French.

Craig Silverman currently investigates, reports and writes for ProPublica. The focus of his writing and research has been primarily online false information and media manipulation.

Silverman won the George Polk Award for his work uncovering how Facebook shows users disinformation. “Facebook Gets Paid,” “Facebook Fired An Employee who Collected Evidence of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment,” and “How Facebook Failed Kenosha” are a few in the series that received the Polk. Silverman also won investigation of the year from the Canadian Association of Journalists for his work detailing an international Facebook scam. You can read more about that in “Trap King: How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers.”

Silverman previously worked at BuzzFeed News, where he served as media editor.

Patricía Campos Mello is a decorated Brazilian journalist working at Folha de S. Paulo as a columnist and reporter-at-large. Her work spans broad topics from the Afghanistan war to the Ebola epidemic to the refugee crisis in the Middle East.

In 2019, Mello won the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists for her work uncovering the business deals of a pro-Bolsonaro group promoting the Brazilian president on social media channels, including WhatsApp. In response to her coverage, Mello was threatened on social media and through phone calls. She was doxxed on multiple occasions and forced to hire a bodyguard and cancel public appearances.

“The attack on Campos Mello was one of the most visible cases of doxing in a year and election cycle in which dozens of journalists were harassed and criticized for their reporting,” the Committee to Protect Journalists wrote in an article.

Mello has worked as a correspondent across multiple countries and continents.

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Disinformation - Online - Dangerous

Facts Opposed to Disinformation, Misinformation and 'Big Lies'

Facts in a Connected, Internet-Era

Rising up against a barrage of online false, misleading claims

Information volleys, viral conspiracies, the 'dark web' become frontlines in a political war

• https://www.rappler.com/world/global-affairs/full-text-maria-ressa-speech-nobel-peace-prize-awarding-ceremony-2021/

• https://youtu.be/m1w3rRRBoq8

So please, with me, just close your eyes for just a moment, and imagine the world as it should be. A world of peace, trust, and empathy, bringing out the best that we can be.

Open your eyes. Now go, we have to make it happen. Please, let’s hold the line together. Thank you.

Democracy at Risk

A Year Reviewing Fact Checking Around the World

• https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/lessons-learned-from-a-year-covering-fact-checking/

• https://findings2021.monitor.civicus.org/

Bring the Facts, Make a Truthful Case

Online... Searching for the Facts, a Never-ending Story

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Facts Count, a Free Press Matters

"We can't have a democracy as we know it without a free press, and that's why Poynter is so important."

• https://www.poynter.org/about/

Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida: Independent Journalism in Practice

"Misinformation has exploded online. Hoaxes go viral on social media after most breaking news events, manipulated videos dupe internet users into sharing them and fake news sites publish fabricated stories and cash in on the traffic."

Poynter's training for journalists and writers now teaches tools and best practices to identify misinfo....

"Fact-checking to... check the veracity of images uses tools like RevEye and Google’s Reverse Image Search, picking apart viral social media videos with InVid and YouTube Dataviewer and assessing social media profiles with Account Analysis and StalkScan."

With the launch of its PolitiFact project in 2007 the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) led a fact-checking initiative that quickly became a world-wide network. Fact-checking best practice are vital and necessary in an era of dis- and mis-information and daily attacks on facts and science.

Fact Checking and Embedded Links

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Poynter Takes on Full Management of PolitiFact

The Poynter Institute, home of the International Fact Checking Network, which launched in 2015 as a forum for fact-checkers on all continents, has now expanded its fact-finding services.

Poynter's International Fact Checking Network monitors trends, research and best practices, with articles on a dedicated channel on poynter.org and a weekly newsletter co-edited with the American Press Institute. The IFCN produced a code of principles for fact-checking; 46 organizations (including PolitiFact) are currently (Feb. 2018) verified signatories of the IFCN’s code, which is a minimum condition for being accepted as a third-party fact-checker by Facebook.

PolitiFact's First Decade

PolitiFact Process-Methodology

• https://www.poynter.org/channels/fact-checking/

• https://www.politifact.com/

• https://www.politifact.com/article/list/

International Fact-Checking Network

Launched in 2015, Taking the PolitiFact Model for Fact-Checking and -Finding International

• https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/

International Fact-Checking Network Code of Principles

Principles Created in 2016

• https://www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/

• https://www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/know-more/the-commitments-of-the-code-of-principles

• https://www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/know-more/the-advisory-board-and-our-pool-of-assessors

• https://www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/know-more/the-code-and-the-platforms

• https://www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/know-more/code-of-principles-1st-year-a-report

IFCN on Facebook

@factchecknet

• https://www.facebook.com/factchecknet

IFCN on Twitter

@factchecknet

• https://twitter.com/factchecknet

International Fact Checking Network @Poynter

• http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ | Poynter Fact-Checking News

• https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ | MediaWise for Teens

Poynter and MediaWise announce College Correspondents program to teach fact from fiction online

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Facts or Not on Social Media

Misinformation, Political Messaging, Database-driven Disinformation, Targets Audiences & Online Viral Manipulation, Algorithms & Online Platforms (Facebook/Google-Alphabet/Twitter/etc)

How are independent fact-checkers selected on Facebook? | Facebook Help Center

• https://www.facebook.com/help/1599660546745980

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Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- Fact-Finding Best Practices in Action

International Fact Checking 360

Always On 24/7/365

• https://factcheckingday.com/ - https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/

• https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2016/theres-been-an-explosion-of-international-fact-checkers-but-they-face-big-challenges/

• http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/

International Fact Checking Day 2020

• https://factcheckingday.com/articles/41/2020-international-fact-checking-day

200 Ways to Teach About Fact Checking

• https://educheckmap.factcheckingday.com/#/projects

Brookings Institute-Tech Policy reports on fact-checking... and readers

April 2020 Update: 237 fact-checkers in nearly 80 countries... and counting

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Global Fact-Checking News / Global Fact-Checking Sites

List in Development...

• https://checkyourfact.com/

• https://factcheck.afp.com/

• https://www.polygraph.info/

• https://www.reuters.com/fact-check

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/

• http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/

• http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384

• https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ | Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News

• https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ | 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)

• https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ | 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)

• http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ | 37 Countries-96 Fact-Check Sites (2016)

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Science & Facts Count, Get Data & Science @GreenPolicy360

GreenPolicy360 ... Science as a Guide

GreenPolicy360 & NASA, Science & Data: Measure to Manage

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | 'Then there are the naysayers', 'Merchants of Doubt'
• http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science

 

Techniques of Science Denial

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png

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Climate Change - NASA

• https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ | Vital Signs

Climate Change - MIT

• https://climateprimer.mit.edu/ | Climate Science, a Primer

Climate Change Metrics

• https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/climate-change-data-green/ | Bloomberg Green Climate Data-Dashboard Intel

Worldometer

• https://www.worldometers.info/ | World Statistics

March for Science

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It's Time for Real-Time Fact Checking

Beginning in 2007 in St. Petersburg, Florida, an independent news organization steps up and starts a fact-checking network. It is called PolitiFact.

Soon a growing movement, PolitiFact acts to change the ways news is reported... a battle of facts vs. 'non-facts', facts vs. dis- and mis-info, conspiracies and viral theories, info ops - and com ops weaponizing online and social media communications.

PolitiFact's tagline is bold and memorable amid the online battle --

Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.

Visit PolitiFact and Fact-Checking Networks.

Do your own fact-checking and fact-finding research.

It's more than Orwellian out there. Aim to discover and be guided by facts...

"TRUTH-O-METER", reporting stories, questioning claims as...

True

Mostly True

Half True

Mostly False

False

Pants on Fire

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NewsGuard targets Disinformation / Misinformation: Check out the NewsGuard online services

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard

• https://www.newsguardtech.com/

• https://www.newsguardtech.com/solutions/newsguard/

• https://www.newsguardtech.com/solutions/misinformation-fingerprints/

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On Anti-disinformation Work

Facing a Tide of Dis-info and Mis-info

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous

A President and Legacy of Dis- and Mis-information

At GreenPolicy360 we continue to advocate for science and facts. Fact checking and fact finding increasingly have grown in importance as social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc) can exponentially multiply falsehoods and untruths.

In the era of the Internet, politics is taking on new powers to reach, engage, interact with, convert and motivate targeted audiences with calls to action.

Fact checking is essential in a fast changing and evolving Internet ....

Facts are essential for a functional, credible democratic government ....

Washington Post

By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/

Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9

More about Hannah Arendt at GreenPolicy360

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/index.php?search=Hannah+Arendt&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1

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