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Fact Checking

As PolitiFact and the International Fact Checking Network attempt to sort out fact from falsehood, is it time for a 'truth sandwich?'

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

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.

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/

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