Fact Checking

 

Fact Checking

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

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

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

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August 2021 / A Year Reviewing Fact Checking Around the World

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

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International Fact-Checking Network

IFCN on Facebook

@factchecknet

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

IFCN on Twitter

@factchecknet

• https://twitter.com/factchecknet

International Fact-Checking Network Code of Principles

(created in 2016)

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

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 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

International Fact Checking Network

• 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/

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Global Fact-Checking News / Global Fact-Checking Sites

• https://www.polygraph.info/

• 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)

International Fact Checking Network @Poynter

• http://www.politifact.com/ | PolitiFact via 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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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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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 this powerful, fast changing and evolving Internet ....

Washington Post

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

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