Fact Checking

 

Fact Checking

Bring the Facts, Make a Truthful Case

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

Facts Count, a Free Press Matters

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

Poynter continues to provides 'best practices' for journalists/news organizations/writers

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

Poynter Takes on Full Management of PolitiFact

News from the St. Petersburg-Tampa Bay Times

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 contnued to expand its fact-finding services.

The Internation Fact Checking Network staff 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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Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- PolitiFact, 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

• 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 Counts, Facts Count, Good Data & Science Are Priorities @GreenPolicy360

GreenPolicy360 & Science

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

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

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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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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