Fact Checking

 

Fact Checking

Fact Finding and the '3 Ds' -- Discussion, Debate and Decision-Making

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

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Fact_Checking_organizations_at_work.jpg

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

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/

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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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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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 amid this online battle for 'hearts and minds' --

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 the Fact-Checking Network.

Review its history and process, including the graphic.

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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