When is a "Game of checkers?" not an actual game of "King me" checkers?
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CHECKERS — CHILI DOG, $3.29 — Checkers' hot dog was topped with chili and optional cheese and onions.
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Facebook's partnership with fact-checkers is increasingly important as election periods begin around the world, and in countries where fact-checkers test tools before they're made available to fact-checkers in the United States.
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As far as I know, Facebook has no newsroom, beat reporters, copy desks or fact checkers (especially not fact checkers).
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Why I bow down to fact-checkers Our understanding of fact-checkers and our appreciation of their work has grown too narrow.
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If the fact-checkers agree, the posts can then be given a red label noting the story is disputed by third-party fact-checkers.
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The dashboardThe fact-checkers we spoke with detailed the current state of the dashboard, a tool Facebook developed for its third-party fact-checkers.
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It can turn to "independent fact checkers," but that just moves the problem back a level — then the fact checkers have to make the choice.
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If two or more checkers deem a link to be false, Facebook ads a label to inform users that it has been flagged by fact-checkers.
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It has partnered with third-party fact-checkers in France and Germany, among other locations, to filter misleading content, and said it would be open to paying fact-checkers.
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"Chess and checkers do not need sophisticated evaluation functions," says Jonathan Schaeffer, a computer scientist at the University of Alberta who wrote Chinook, the first program to solve checkers.
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They can sit by the fireplace as they drink beer, snack on cheese and nuts, and play their best game of checkers on the handsome stained-wood checkers board.
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Facebook now sends stories reported as false to third-party fact checkers, and these purposefully inaccurate reports can clog the already-overcrowded queues that fact checkers struggle to worth through.
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Fact checkers complained about this loophole to Facebook, and the company said that starting this week, fact checkers are able to review photos and videos as well as article links.
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Almost exactly nine months ago, the company announced it would add a "disputed by third party fact-checkers" label to links in the News Feed that external fact checkers deemed completely false.
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Facebook originally outsourced the practice of selecting fact-checkers to Poynter via this partnership in 2016 to avoid having to make any decisions about fact-checkers that could be clouded as biased.
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Under the new initiative discussed today, Facebook is allowing fact-checkers to proactively track and flag stories, videos, and memes, as fact-checkers might be able to spot propaganda before Facebook's system does.
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I was playing checkers and the writers were playing chess.
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This looks like a game of checkers in a playground.
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The fact checkers are going to be very, very busy.
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Jordan's playing chess, these other kids are just playing checkers.
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Bring on the fact checkers, number crunchers, and project managers!
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Mike, from what I know, you can barely play checkers.
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Holland is playing chess while you're playing checkers, my friends.
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We're still playing chess while the president is playing checkers.
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"The other guys are playing checkers," he likes to say.
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I say today we'll have to play checkers at home.
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I mean, you hear about people treating fact-checkers ... Yeah.
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Facebook works only with fact-checkers that are part of the International Fact-Checking Network, a global coalition of vetted fact-checkers founded by the Poynter Institute, a leading journalism think tank based in Florida.
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Old-timers scoff that it is like comparing checkers with chess.
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Getting media fact-checkers to adopt their preferred framing — tax increases!
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Letting competition drive down prices is more effective than intrusive checkers.
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That's where the company's network of independent fact-checkers comes in.
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Fact-checkers examined it and were satisfied that it was authentic.
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Checkers, Chipotle, Shake Shack… Americans have nailed fast, time saving eating.
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Once, The Daily Argus had fact-checkers, copy editors, legal advisers.
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Decks of cards, including Uno, Scrabble and checkers/chess are available.
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It's time for the United States to put away the checkers.
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But Mr Trump does not care what media fact-checkers think.
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One reason is that symptom checkers tend to be risk-averse.
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Fact checkers later revealed that the photo had come from Brazil.
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Fact checkers have pointed out that the ad is deeply misleading.
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Man, YouTube can't bring on those 10,000 human checkers fast enough.
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The quantity of false stories, these fact checkers said, is vast.
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Fact-checkers cannot rebut viral hoaxes and misinformation they cannot see.
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The AP used 11(!) different fact checkers for former Alaskan Gov.
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And fact-checkers have found the claim to be false. 10.
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Some authors are hiring independent fact checkers to review their books.
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It also doesn't have to pay for its own fact checkers.
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Bo lived with the Obamas and Checkers lived with the Nixons.
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Scott Wakeman, director of marketing for Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc.
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The first mention of Checkers comes about halfway through the video.
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Legions of fact-checkers have found no evidence for this claim.
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In case you wondered who wrote those, it's fact-checkers. Okay.
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The fact-checkers can do their jobs from a YouTube stream.
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One reason could be that the people the fact-checkers want to persuade are supporting Trump precisely because they see him as rich and powerful enough to stick it to the fact-checkers on their behalf.
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The EC also says it will boost resource for national multidisciplinary teams of independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks — working towards establishing a European network of fact-checkers.
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When you have fact-checkers fact checking rival fact-checkers, when political pundits seem to live in two very different countries, when there's so much anger and acrimony, it's just easier to ignore the world of politics.
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Facebook isn't handing the information over, and fact-checkers are reportedly irked.
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Also watch for a lot of fact-checkers to be working late.
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Sometimes Facebook flags articles to be reviewed by its partner fact-checkers.
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But professional fact-checkers have found that Trump is a serial liar.
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She also called on "the fact checkers" several times during the debate.
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But some fact-checkers have a bone to pick with that statement.
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Fact checkers say the video was faked by splicing together unrelated footage.
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As so often, there was much for fact-checkers to quibble over.
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This year's presidential election campaign has forced fact-checkers to work overtime.
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Other fact-checkers, like the Washington Post's fact-checker blog and FactCheck.
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Say what you will about checkers and chess, but they're sticky games.
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Maybe they should hire a bunch of their own fact-checkers, too.
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To fight conspiracy theories, we also don't just need more fact-checkers.
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A Facebook spokesperson highlighted the company's work with third-party fact-checkers.
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Whether the 'fact-checkers' give us their stamp of approval — or not.
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" Eighteen: "I will give the security bag checkers X-ray vision glasses.
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He could surprise everyone and start playing chess at the checkers tournament.
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Yet some of Facebook's fact-checkers may themselves be contributing to misinformation.
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His remarks have been called out by fact-checkers over the weekend.
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Fact-checkers have particularly noticed these recordings circulating in Spain and Colombia.
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Facebook already labels some content as false using third-party fact-checkers.
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There was even a Broadway show about fact-checkers, starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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Australia has 17 million Facebook users — and just seven dedicated fact checkers.
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"But his reason for getting involved with Checkers was a great story."
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She wants to play checkers at the coffee shop around the corner.
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God forbid women talk to each other directly, unfiltered by fact-checkers.
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You need to build an API,' The work that fact-checkers are doing doesn't need to be just for Facebook — we can build things for fact-checkers that benefit the whole web, and that can also help Facebook.
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Checkers, Malfoy and Snape are about to understand why cats hate water. Sigh.
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Facebook's approach has been to employ fact-checkers to help identify dubious content.
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In addition, he's also diversified and opened a few Rally's/Checkers Hamburgers joints.
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Though machines have beaten the best humans at chess, checkers, Othello, Scrabble, Jeopardy!
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If fact checkers determine a story is fake, they flag it for Facebook.
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During last night's presidential debate, though, it was all about the fact-checkers.
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If you ask fact-checkers, the turning point is the 1988 presidential election.
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Sometimes the fact-checkers bring an article to Facebook, telling them it's false.
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Not surprisingly, this isn't what motivates the fact checkers to do their work.
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Most people don't have the resources to employ a battalion of fact checkers.
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Several of us are environmental activists and two are journalists [our FACT checkers].
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Often by shifting the burden of identification to unpaid third parties (fact checkers).
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If fact-checkers and Pulitzer voters are partisan, our model will be too.
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It found that many fact-checkers were frustrated with Facebook's lack of transparency.
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Facebook is developing technology tools to assist its fact checkers in this process.
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We asked 19 fact-checkers what they think of their partnership with Facebook.
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Facebook says its external fact checkers in Germany are "signing the Poynter guidelines".
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Share more data with fact checkers about the reach of our fact checks.
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That's using third-party fact-checkers, as you mentioned, in all 50 states.
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The utility of fact-checkers in that environment can be difficult to predict.
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Third-party fact-checkers must agree to a fact-checking code of ethics.
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Meanwhile, it's downranking hoaxes, partnering with outside fact checkers and demonetizing fake news.
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Jarvis also asked how Facebook's partnerships with third-party fact checkers are going.
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"For every maker there are four checkers these days," grumbles one investment banker.
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Yet the two cases contain stark differences, as fact-checkers have pointed out.
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Nowadays they don't use "Fact Checkers" anymore, they just write whatever they want!
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Fact-checkers for The Washington Post stood their ground on Tuesday after Rep.
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The White House is not playing checkers; it is playing three-dimensional chess.
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Nowadays they don't use 'Fact Checkers' anymore, they just write whatever they want!
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The Checkers and Rally's Twitter account casually reacted to IHOB's new burger line.
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Instead, she implored others to correct him, "The fact checkers, please," she said.
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Fingers crossed the Academy hires some fact-checkers and photo researchers in 2018.
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Trump actually embodies a harsher Nixon than Nixon himself — like Nixon without Checkers.
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CLINTON: That's a — that's — go to the — please, fact checkers, get to work.
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They said they do not routinely put essays, for example, through plagiarism checkers.
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Each time, fact-checkers have piled on to point out that it's false.
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Facebook has even partnered with right-leaning outlets as fact-checkers for news.
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"It's a very complicated game of Chinese checkers they are playing," said Yardeni.
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They have started working with fact checkers to distinguish and label false content.
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Second, they would hire fact-checkers to make sure they weren't promoting misinformation.
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" In February, Trump had quoted Jesse Watters, who declared fact-checkers "Fake News.
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Of course, in this twisted era, fact-checkers should be celebrated every day.
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It's in Junod's profile, so presumably it passed muster with Esquire's fact-checkers.
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Independent fact checkers -- including the Washington Post -- have repeatedly knocked these claims down.
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The journalistic fact checkers, God bless 'em, can reach only so many people.
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Other fact-checkers are encouraged by the high voter interest in their checks.
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"If, in addition to putting warnings on things fact-checkers find to be false, you also put verification panels on things fact-checkers find to be true, then that solves the problem because there's no longer any ambiguity," Rand said.
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Unlike Facebook, Google isn't just sticking to a small, preselected group of fact-checkers.
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This submits the articles in question to an organization of third party fact checkers.
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Fact-checkers routinely called out his unending stream of distortions, falsehoods and bogus provocations.
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We are actively back and forth with the fact checkers for an expeditious resolution.
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Fact-checkers have to weather pretty vicious responses, because they are taking a side.
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There is a lot of evidence that politicians do pay attention to fact-checkers.
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Fact-checkers were harassed online after partnering with Facebook, reports Daniel Funke at Poynter.
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What's new: To date, most of Facebook's fact-checkers have focused on reviewing articles.
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Content rated false by a fact-checkers sees its distribution on Facebook drop dramatically.
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If that's not neutral enough, Facebook could build its own team of fact-checkers.
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Spicer has not been well served by the book's fact checkers and copy editors.
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Such claims have been repeatedly debunked by fact checkers such as Snopes and Politifact.
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There was four fact-checkers in Nigeria, for a country of 24 million people.
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The Washington Post's fact checkers gave the statement "four Pinocchios," their worst possible rating.
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Other firms work with GPs to provide services like online triaging and symptom checkers.
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That could lead to fact-checkers wasting time on stories that are obviously correct.
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The Post's fact-checkers later noted some academics questioned the validity of the study.
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Increasingly, it feels like we are playing checkers, while our opponents are playing chess.
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A few Facebook tools, some fact-checkers or an algorithm won't do a thing.
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Simpson reveals that with twins, she has taken a "chess not checkers" approach, i.e.
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Fact-checkers, seeking to counter these messages, had little penetration in those same communities.
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I don't always agree with the fact-checkers, but those are pretty stunning numbers.
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His family had received one gift, he allowed: a dog his daughter named Checkers.
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They're trying to build a means for fact-checkers to work together first draft.
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Facebook said that after independent fact checkers disproved these claims, it buried those posts.
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That's not true, as the fact-checkers at the Associated Press later pointed out.
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Fact checkers have made clear that he has a strained relationship with the truth.
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Fact-checkers, as the name implies, validate the information in stories written by colleagues.
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Some apps like Buoy are using symptom-checkers based on guidelines from the CDC.
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Then the fact-checkers weigh in and quickly determine that the claim is false.
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And politicians and their ads remain off limits to Facebook's third-party fact checkers.
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Busy night for fact-checkers -- The president's rhetoric stretched reality on several occasions.7.
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However, fact-checkers at the Poynter Institute have confirmed that those claims aren't true.
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Her children had spent the day playing checkers instead of learning in a classroom.
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Trump appears to be playing a game of chess while Democrats are playing checkers.
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And yet, the most fact-checkable president in history stumps even the fact-checkers.
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There was a McDonald's that was closer, but Checkers, he says, was more affordable.
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In a chess master, it involves considerable intellectual elegance, but politics is mostly checkers.
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Holt: Folks, let me — Clinton: Go to — please, the fact checkers, get to work.
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Are you blaming your assistants and fact-checkers for the bulk of the mistakes?
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Tito says it's like comparing checkers to chess ... we say, LET'S SEE IT ANYWAY!!
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It goes by several names, including "mill" and "cowboy checkers," and it's very reminiscent of Nine Men's Morris—a game, which like checkers and chess, involves intersecting squares and small pieces, called "men," that are engaged in combat, as the Moscow Times reports.
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Google won't necessarily show information from all sites that claim to be fact-checkers, however.
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Facebook already has trouble finding enough third-party fact checkers to verify viral news stories.
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Over the years, machines have topped the best humans at checkers, chess, Othello, Scrabble, Jeopardy!
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I revisit a pyramid of free burgers from Checkers before nagging another bartender for Ciroc.
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The Washington Post Fact Checker weighed in (as have lefty wonks critiquing the fact-checkers).
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Fact-checkers have debunked claims that Biden was acting with his son's interest in mind.
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The WFP doesn't take his word for it: every 20 days it sends price-checkers.
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Fact-checkers have also debunked several politicians' claims about border rugs at the southern border.
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After being repeatedly flagged by fact-checkers working with Facebook, YNW eventually discarded the yournewswire.
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Fact-checkers say hoaxes and calls for violence on social media have spiked this week.
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Since then, it's partnered with third-party fact-checkers to catch and flag fake news.
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We planned a Friday afternoon filled with Chinese Checkers, telling spooky stories, and watching MTV.
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"I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume," Clinton said at one point.
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But a fair parsing of his words done by some fact-checkers such as Snopes.
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Facebook relies heavily on third-party fact checkers to assess the accuracy of viral stories.
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The company then announced new partnerships with fact-checkers from trusted organizations like Snopes, FactCheck.
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Besides mahjong, the school also has poker cards and checkers with English letters on them.
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However, fact-checkers have cautioned that does not mean that those people are fraudulently voting.
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Those who side with Fiorina over the fact-checkers should try turning the political tables.
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Grammar checkers are nothing new, of course, and even Docs itself has long had one.
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The Checkers open a six-game homestand with contests on both Friday and Saturday nights.
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But critics and fact-checkers said she had mischaracterized comments from FBI Director James Comey.
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Critics have given it good reviews, but fact-checkers have questioned aspects of the story.
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Normally, Facebook sends fact checkers stories that are being flagged by users and going viral.
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Fact-checkers have assailed many of the assertions he has made on the campaign trail.
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It can't learn a much simpler game, like checkers, without lots of human help first.
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That seriously irks the fact checkers, whose literal job is to find evidence for claims.
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"The corporate fact checkers are blindly trusting the author of the Mercatus report," Sanders tweeted.
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You'll also find chess and checkers, a free skeeball machine, and a few swinging sofas.
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Facebook has since rolled this feature out to its 27 fact checkers in 17 countries.
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Two Facebook fact-checkers in India investigated the posts and said the image was doctored.
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Except, as fact checkers documented, the pictures were old, showing wreckage from a previous crash.
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And major news media outlets established teams of fact checkers to protect against fake news.
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Those ads, though, will be flagged with warnings from Facebook's team of independent fact-checkers.
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The magazine's fact-checkers told the company details about what Mr. Farrow planned to report.
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The effort didn't generate much organic engagement, but it did keep local fact-checkers busy.
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The company has started identifying posts that are categorized as false by independent fact checkers.
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And in fact, there is a complete solution for checkers, meaning it is literally impossible.
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And then there's chess, which also had many, many more degrees of freedom than checkers.
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This is the time to help the country transform, not play geopolitical checkers with missiles.
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Our role is to be observers, umpires, fact-checkers, investigators — it's not to be advocates.
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He brushed Tira's hands from him and began restoring the checkers to their right points.
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The situation is slightly more complex on Facebook, as third-party fact-checkers are involved.
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Not if Tanner's reported eating habits are to be believed (Checkers and McDonald's figure prominently).
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Beyond Facebook To help tackle its misinformation problem, Facebook has hired third-party fact-checkers.
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And, as difficult and complex as that problem is, an autonomous car can't play checkers.
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Even though fact-checkers deploy their forces on Trump regularly, he never apologizes or retracts.
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Tech companies struggling with how to respond to misinformation should support and value their fact-checkers.
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Over the past twenty years, machines have topped the best humans at checkers, chess, Scrabble, Jeopardy!
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But multiple fact-checkers told the news outlet that the efforts have mostly been a failure.
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"They should be hiring armies of moderators and their own fact-checkers," one fact-checker said.
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In 1995 a computer program called Chinook beat one of the world's best players at checkers.
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Facebook says its third-party fact-checkers are certified by the impartial International Fact-Checking Network.
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There's no point in having fact-checkers in the regular media, because people don't believe them.
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The label is then applied to a link once at least two checkers rate it false.
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Indeed, today Josan owns four Checkers restaurants — in Queens, Brooklyn, New York City and Long Island.
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That one will be more versatile, covering additional classic table-top games like checkers and backgammon.
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The move represents the biggest outward facing change to Facebook's year-old partnership with fact-checkers.
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But as many fact-checkers have noted, Pinocchios don't seem to have an effect on Trump.
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Facebook says it plans to clearly mark any content independent fact-checkers have flagged as untrue.
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Like, for example, spotting copies of stories that human fact-checkers have already identified as fake.
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One of Justina's patients suggested Jewel try for a job at Checkers, a fast-food chain.
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"Working with twins, it made me come up with a saying — chess not checkers," she says.
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This comes in addition to non-branded games like chess and checkers, which are also available.
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F Phil Di Giuseppe was assigned by the Hurricanes to the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL.
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On Friday, the company said one of its fact checkers had said the video was false.
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Fact-checkers typically look at individual comments a politician makes and judge them against known evidence.
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His candidacy has flummoxed fact-checkers, and his capacity for lying is unprecedented in presidential politics.
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The "share" button sends lies flying around the Web faster than fact checkers can debunk them.
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But both Trump and Kim have long seemed to be laboring over a game of checkers.
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It's more like a simple game of checkers against an opponent who won't stop heckling you.
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That would never have made it past our fact-checkers -- who, in fact, include our interns!
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Democratic lawmakers and fact-checkers have highlighted what they say are problems with the president's arguments.
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"We do not submit speech by politicians to our independent fact-checkers," said Mr Clegg recently.
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The company has a team of writers, researchers and fact-checkers coming up with the prompts.
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How to Win at Checkers pulls from Thai-American author Rattawut Lapcharoensap's famous 2004 collection Sightseeing.
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Fact-checkers thoroughly pointed out Trump's falsehoods before the 2016 election, and here we still are.
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CLINTON: Well, I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard.
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Going from podcast to book is like watching a checkers master play a game of chess.
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Clinton: Well, I hope the fact checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard.
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All the fact-checkers Facebook partners with are certified by Poynter's International Fact Checking Network (IFCN).
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Facebook's algorithms flag potentially fake posts to the fact-checkers, who decide which ones to investigate.
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Yet Facebook&aposs fact-checkers have marked the video with a warning that it is false.
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At a digital outlet with research staff and fact-checkers, the process follows a similar trajectory.
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The Triad includes CNN's fact-checkers and its standards team, both of which approved the article.
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Baker acknowledged criticism of how slow Facebook is to direct hoaxes and misinformation to fact-checkers.
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"Fact checkers are as important as cover designers, as editors," Mr. Giridharadas said in an interview.
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Stolarsky's monomaniacal focus on the checkers had drained off the chaotic intensity of his other behaviors.
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"All right all right all right," Stolarsky incanted, shoving the checkers back to their starting points.
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He bore off the first of his checkers, and Stolarsky threw up his hands in disgust.
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Checkers were sent clattering—fortunately not a position in progress, only a game set to play.
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Like their magazine counterparts, these fact-checkers would only check that a statement was technically true.
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Facebook said it would try and monitor such content with software and third-party fact-checkers.
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Fact-checkers have worked overtime to keep up with Giuliani, but he doesn't seem to care.
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His "casual relationship with the truth," as fact-checkers called it, hurt him with Ohio's voters.
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And A.O.C. should start mastering her facts rather than getting into Twitter wars with fact checkers.
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"Fact-checkers have to weather pretty vicious responses, because they are taking a side," Graves said.
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And Facebook could hire a team of fact-checkers to examine the most widely-shared stories.
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Instead, he sees NewsGuard as "amplifiers" of fact-checkers' work, which it cites in its reports.
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This new approach, in contrast, draws on the authority of "independent" fact-checkers outside of Facebook.
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Should the onus really be on authors to pay for fact-checkers in the first place?
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This is more checkers than chess; it's Trump saying if you do X, we'll do Y. Well, I'd prefer that the man with his hand on the lever be playing chess... But that really is the question here: Was this a checkers move or a chess move?
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Some of the most dishonest people in media are the so-called 'fact-checkers,' " the president said, echoing a tweet earlier in the day praising a segment by Fox News host Jesse Watters, who accused media fact-checkers of "lying" to the public while becoming "fake news.
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Zuckerberg and Zittrain discussed several ways for going about this, including fact checkers and other independent bodies.
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A Korean War veteran at the home wanted a checkers partner, so Cavan agreed to come back.
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Third-party fact-checkers will assess the content and a warning will be added to "disputed" links.
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" It later tweeted that the new team "were environmental activists and two are journalists [our FACT checkers].
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Now, it's struggling to retain the fact-checkers it paid to try and deal with the crisis.
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The company also removes publishers from Instant Articles if they've been flagged by third-party fact-checkers.
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Users will reportedly receive a warning before sharing that the video has been flagged by fact-checkers.
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Fact-checkers from NPR and Politifact pointed out that several of Clinton's claims were not entirely accurate.
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But the checkers have been asking for data from Facebook since the early days of the program.
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These "Home checkers" visit every property to create accompanying audio-visual material and to verify the listing.
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Cravens said her political background gives her credibility among conservatives who may be skeptical of fact-checkers.
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All the more reason the company should have a physical presence in the country, fact-checkers argue.
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The disputed flag was only applied to links deemed completely false by at least two fact-checkers.
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Pence will not fare well with fact checkers, but his poise and polish played well with voters.
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It was a performance that was, yes, riddled with inaccurate statements that fact-checkers will point out.
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Fact-checkers at the Washington Post have identified more than 5,000 false or misleading statements from Trump.
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The IFCN board votes on certification of fact-checkers without any input from Facebook or other partners.
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Checkers: Free large fry with any purchase when you sign up for "The Flavorhood" exclusive email list.
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Though its Echo smart speakers appear to mostly get used as expensive weather checkers and egg timers.
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This one was fiery from the start, and the fact-checkers will certainly have headaches tomorrow morning.
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Numerous fact-checkers have deemed that claim false, as he admitted to supporting the war in 2002.
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In the U.S.-China trade war, the Trump administration has been playing checkers while Beijing plays chess.
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This was a speech that contained its own pre-emptive strikes against critics, sceptics and fact-checkers.
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Among independents, 28503 percent said fact-checkers favor one side while 22019 percent felt they are objective.
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"Fact checkers later revealed that the photo had come from Brazil," Paul Mozur and Mark Scott write.
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We've partnered with fact-checkers in countries around the world to identify misinformation and reduce its distribution.
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However, that approach can leave fact-checkers overwhelmed and able to tackle only the most viral hoaxes.
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A learning program such as AlphaGo cannot learn to play chess or checkers without extensive human labor.
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The spread of such unreliable information was the catalyst for the creation of "fact-checkers" like Snopes.
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Beyond the automation and a few official fact-checkers, Facebook relies on users to report problematic content.
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And Democratic politicians spend much more time engaging with fact-checkers on the merits of their arguments.
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And it's tough to trust that any list of tips will suddenly make them strong fact checkers.
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Compulsive checkers repeatedly check power points, stoves, and locks in an attempt to prevent harm or death.
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"I like conflict," he said the other day, a statement that elicited no objections from fact checkers.
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Google has partnered with fact-checkers to train 10,000 journalists this year to better tackle fake news.
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As other fact checkers have noted, Mr. Buttigieg is using the one-year estimates for his figures.
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These days, we need fact-checkers more than ever -- but not just for the reason you think.
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There is no evidence to support the claim, which has been discredited repeatedly by numerous fact-checkers.
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The EU regulators said Facebook needs to step its partnerships with fact-checkers and academics researching disinformation.
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Multiple fact-checkers find him averaging more than a dozen false statements a day for three years.
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For now, many fact-checkers are taking Facebook's claims of success with the proverbial grain of salt.
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Fact checkers have focused on misleading photos and videos, but are leaving climate-related misinformation mostly untouched.
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Facebook's fact-checkers are independent and decide without the company's input which content — including ads — they review.
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Dozens of Biden ads that violate this policy made it past Facebook's automated filters and human checkers.
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MUST-HAVE ITEMS OF THE SEASON The Sandy Liang Checkers jacket, which is like fashion-girl Patagonia.
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The claim, which he has made before on Twitter, has been judged untrue by numerous fact-checkers.
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But fact-checkers are disputing the notion that the USPS's financial woes can be attributed to Amazon.
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When politicians lie today, fact checkers might point out what is true, but then everyone moves on.
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Numerous fact-checkers have deemed that claim false, as he admitted to supporting the war in 2002.
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Facebook's fact checkers have long called the company's process too cumbersome, complaining that it moves too slowly.
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The site will also more prominently label content that third-party fact-checkers deem false, Zuckerberg said.
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Facebook will advise fact-checkers they can audit speech that appears to be from the creators themselves.
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She says she's going to kick me in the face if we don't play checkers Right Now.
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Under the false-news strategy that Facebook already had in place, Facebook passed flagged stories to fact-checkers.
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The absence of this tool doesn't mean fact-checkers aren't pinpointing photos and videos outside of Facebook's system.
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The fact-checkers are effectively asking for evidence that the work they are doing is making a difference.
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But other posts that can't be immediately verified will be sent to the company's fact checkers for review.
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WALLACE: Marie, let me pick up on that with you because, you know, international trade is not checkers.
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That should provide people easier access to additional perspectives and information, including articles by third-party fact-checkers.
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Facebook says that it's open to paying fact-checkers if that's what it takes to fight fake news.
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The fact-checkers write an article explaining their ruling, and then Facebook punishes an article if it's false.
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Fact-checkers rated that claim to be misleading given Sanders' vote for the first round of bailout money.
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Even the act of choosing which stories to fact-check is frequently informed by the fact-checkers' politics.
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He also said this means Facebook is likely to keep working with fact checkers over the long term.
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All of the stories were eventually debunked by Facebook's third-party fact checkers and demoted in News Feed.
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Now, I need to list an address—but doing so makes easy work for any skeptical fact-checkers.
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We have fact-checkers at organizations like Snopes, Politifact or Media Matters applying judgments to news stories already.
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There will also be a way for fact-checkers to simultaneously review several articles about the same subject.
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But with Donald Trump in charge, the GOP doesn't seem too concerned these days with hiring fact checkers.
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Facebook launched a Media Legal Defense Initiative (MDLI) last year to provide some legal support to fact-checkers.
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Ultimately, it's schemes like these — which involve human fact-checkers — that are most effective in identifying fake news.
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Have other fact checkers looked at a given story, and could or should their judgments inform the other's?
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Trump has made many sweeping claims, often from his Twitter account, that have been criticized by fact checkers.
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Numerous fact-checkers have also found absolutely no factual basis for what Trump tweeted that early March morning.
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Computers had already mastered checkers and chess; now they had learned to dominate a still more complex game.
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The last photo of Vanessa before the #TBT showed her with one of their five children, playing checkers.
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Wendy's. El Pollo Loco actually tastes too much like real, decent food to me; NOT COOL, GUYS: Checkers.
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G Michael Leighton was recalled from the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL to back up G Cam Ward.
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The tools, he said, were rudimentary, and checkers were limited in the number of articles they could evaluate.
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New York Times fact-checkers quickly pointed out that Mr. Holt's and Mr. Trump's comments were both true.
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A decade ago, artificial intelligence was a truly emergent technology, with few real-world applications beyond solving checkers.
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He spent $100,000 to hire two fact checkers to sift through the manuscript, with help from Ms. Stahl.
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Some fact checkers and political pundits may have raced to their history books, ready to dispute the claim.
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A lie that all the fact checkers in the world debunked when he started saying it long ago.
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Whether he's playing you at darts or checkers or Ping-Pong, he wants to beat your brains out.
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" As late as 2013, he still tweeted, "Tell me, what were they doing in the Park, playing checkers?
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To kick off the skill, once installed, you say: "Alexa, ask the fact-checkers…" followed by your query.
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It's kind of like checkers in that you can "jump" your opponent to get to your own goals.
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Checkers has for years been underrepresented in the wealthiest neighborhoods with the most spending power, according to analysts.
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In India, Facebook has partnered with fact checkers and, like Twitter, ramped up efforts to block fake accounts.
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One of those steps includes verifying political advertisers through a system that combines automated and human fact checkers.
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Facebook, as is its way, wouldn't go into detail about its process for certifying third-party fact checkers.
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Yet today, Snopes' established team of fact-checkers and misinformation moderators is going unused by Facebook and Google.
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Whatever the case, the magazine's fact checkers never bothered to find out if she got the name right.
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He spent his days talking with pigeons to whom he had given names: Checkers and Wingtip and Speckles.
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The former vice president has denied doing so and the GOP claims have been debunked by fact checkers.
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Fact checkers have debunked the President's false claims that there was widespread voter fraud during the 2016 election.
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" That tweet came hard on this one from Trump on February 11: "Fact checkers have become Fake News.
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And if past is prologue, he won't stop -- no matter what fact-checkers or his advisers tell him.
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When they do their job well, fact checkers produce passionless, straightforward assessments, with no evidence of ideological leaning.
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Facebook's key UK fact-checker Full Fact only has two primary fact-checkers combatting misinformation in the country.
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The fact checkers will operate separately from, though with learnings gleaned from, the 12-person media verification team.
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Ironically, had fact-checkers kept to this narrow interpretation of the facts, they might actually be useful today.
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Trump tells everybody the truth as he sees it (although the fact-checkers might have a different view).
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Sixty60 is currently available to the public in selected Checkers stores in the Western Cape and Gauteng provinces.
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I said fact-checkers have Trump telling a lot of lies about a lot of people and laughed.
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The companies have been ramping up content moderation and hiring more human fact-checkers to rein in abuse.
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Independent fact-checkers found the attacks as unfair, and they shamed Democrats for misleading voters on the issue.
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I met you because we were fact checkers at Forbes magazine back when there was a Forbes magazine.
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Fact-checkers have had to come up with pretty precise rule for what counts as a fact-check.
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Could retreating to "numerous" signal a sensitivity to pesky fact-checkers who keep asking for follow-up documentation?
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The margin Sunday was 1.861 seconds, but no other cars were within 20 seconds when the checkers waved.
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Facebook told the Washington Post Thursday the video was going to be reviewed by third-party fact-checkers.
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The "post-truth" election has put a strain on the world's fact-checkers The "post-truth" election has put a strain on the world's fact-checkers Even as the public and the media seem to emphasize temperament over truth this election cycle, there's never been a bigger appetite for fact-checking.
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A few years back, one of the cadets had gotten a game called 'checkers' from one of the sims.
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For now, it will label stories as "disputed" if fact-checkers find inaccuracies, but they won't be taken down.
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Facebook already banned publishers from promoting a link or story that was deemed false by third-party fact-checkers.
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Image: GettyFacebook outsourced its fake news problem, and it appears the company isn't keeping its fact-checkers fully satisfied.
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Over the last twenty years, machines have beaten the best human players at checkers, chess, Othello, Scrabble, even Jeopardy.
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Menendez, who noted that fact-checkers had decried the ad as false, called Hugin a "slimeball" for running it.
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These so-called "Home checkers" visit every property to create accompanying audio-visual material and to verify the listing.
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Because fact-checkers have signed non-disclosure agreements with Facebook, however, they were unable to discuss some topics publicly.
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While none of the fact-checkers specifically mentioned deepfakes, they did mention manipulated photos as a source of misinformation.
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Single-payer critics and some fact-checkers have (wrongly) suggested America's doctors would face a 40-percent pay cut.
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"I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard," she said at one point.
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It must be admitted that some of the fact-checking is infected by the checkers' impotent hatred of Trump.
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"Thus, when a politician speaks or makes an ad, we do not send it to third party fact checkers."
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One reason is that any link rated false by third party checkers automatically has its reach reduced on Facebook.
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Fact-checkers have patiently debunked this narrative, which comes from a book "Clinton Cash", written by a conservative journalist.
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With Gerbe activated, the Hurricanes sent LW Phil Di Giuseppe and LW Brock McGinn to the AHL Charlotte Checkers.
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Earlier this month, The New York Times reported on the impossible task facing Facebook's fact checkers in the Philippines.
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When Paramjit Josan opened his first Checkers fast-food restaurant in 2008, he knew it wouldn't be his last.
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Thus, when a politician speaks or makes an ad, we do not send it to third party fact checkers.
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During the debate, Clinton commented, "I hope the fact checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard".
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There's obviously a lot of information is shared every day and there just aren't a lot of fact checkers.
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She has the car to win, and wreckers or checkers, this final race might be how she is remembered.
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Some are offering basic monitoring software — the kind that fact-checkers use to see what rumors are swirling online.
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Partnerships with fact checkers allowed trusted sources to evaluate whether news stories were false, and down-rank them accordingly.
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Facebook already has a program in France to use outside fact-checkers to combat fake news in users' feeds.
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After quitting Checkers in July, Jewel decided to help her family with a new real estate business at home.
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Her rebuttal to Trump's incoherent rants was to chuckle and tell viewers to check in with the fact checkers.
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Mementos and art pieces honoring Socks, Checkers, Fala, Bo and more presidential pets are looking for a new owner.
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Noteworthy stat: the fact-checkers have collectively branded at least 30,000 links as false over the past two years.
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Some fact-checkers said Facebook's "disputed" tag doesn't do much and suggested that Facebook wasn't serious about stopping disinformation.
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It seems likely that the same approach could extend to all perfect-information games [such as chess and checkers].
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Lyon noted that Facebook continues to work with third-party fact-checkers, such as the Associated Press and FactCheck.
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The answer is no one because, as fact checkers pointed out, no incident occurred in Sweden on Friday night.
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The rollout will use updated machine learning to detect more potential hoaxes to send to third party fact checkers.
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The Alto study points to a problem fact-checkers have long suspected: they are often preaching to the choir.
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If they once focused on holding politicians to account, fact-checkers are now seeking to influence a wider audience.
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By fourth grade I'd complain whenever someone wanted to play checkers instead, and offer to teach them Chess instead.
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For Checkers restaurants, rent in American airports is 50% more expensive than in their traditional brick-and-mortar locations.
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The spokesperson said Instagram will soon begin reducing the reach of posts that have been debunked by fact-checkers.
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The network will now flag and down-rank fake news with help from outside fact checkers at Snopes, FactCheck.
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Before, if a user flagged a vaccination hoax to Facebook's fact-checkers, Facebook would then limit that post's reach.
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That way, the fact-checkers can spend their time reviewing articles that are already qualified to probably be wrong.
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The mainly discount retail group is executing this strategic shift by expanding its higher-end Checkers chain of stores.
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So the company mustered an army of fact checkers to push back against the daily cascade of fake stories.
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Trump's claims that voter fraud affected the election have repeatedly been shot down by fact-checkers and voting officials.
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He brushed off fact-checkers, assailed the media, went on Twitter tirades against his critics, and dabbled in racism.
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Not because Gabbard's allegations were entirely true; indeed, fact-checkers torpedoed some of the charges she made as misleading.
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You have the glassblowers, the glass cutters, the packaging engineers, the quality checkers, I can go on and on.
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The main constraint on political spin appears to be avoiding untruths likely to earn the ire of fact-checkers.
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It also has partnerships with third-party fact-checkers, and applies labels to videos those organizations determine are false.
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Fact-checkers spring into action when Mr. Trump mischaracterizes immigration law or passes off debunked fables as historical facts.
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There are a variety of games like checkers and backgammon that you can play while you enjoy a refreshment.
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The story was later debunked by fact checkers, but it received tens of thousands of likes, shares and comments.
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The former vice president has denied doing so and the GOP claims have been debunked by fact-checkers. Sen.
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He also asks what plans Facebook has to formalize a working relationship with fact-checkers over the long run.
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Fact-checkers are "busting their behinds" trying to keep up with Trump, David Zurawik told me the other day.
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The claim is not a new one for Mr. Trump, and has been fodder for fact checkers since September.
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"We're calling upon business owners, news editors, podcast writers and copy checkers to talk about money equally," she said.
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"YouTube videos are generally longer too, so it's unfeasible for fact-checkers to sit through entire videos," Sinha said.
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As for the game, Kessy's Bears ended up finishing the Checkers, 6-1, after a lengthy post-fight delay.
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The company employs third-party fact checkers to review content, some of which are experts on health-related issues.
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The trouble is, fact-checkers have expanded their purview from checking strictly empirical statements to "checking" contestable political statements.
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It doesn't have to be responsible for paying in-house staff or outside fact checkers to assess politicians' diatribes.
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Read more " _____ • Aaron Lake Smith in Jacobin: "A legion of Washington Post fact-checkers aren't going to change anything.
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Courts cannot become fact-checkers and governments cannot be trusted to become arbiters of the truth through police powers.
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Fact checkers have debunked President Donald Trump's false claims that there was widespread voter fraud during the 2016 election.
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Checkers invests the bulk of its annual marketing budget, about $20 million, in standard television spots, Mr. Wakeman said.
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Could fact checkers work speedily enough to post rebuttals online within minutes of his misrepresentations, before they took root?
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Lyons said the company was making progress in smoothing its process for fact-checkers assigned to label false information.
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JB: As you know, there are other online symptom checkers that seem to give people really scary potential diagnoses.
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The fact-checkers are out in droves this weekend as stern Saturn and the sun sync up in outspoken Sagittarius.
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Woodford says the fact-checkers' ratings of the material will then be used to help improve Facebook's machine learning system.
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Through his discussions, Ananny discovered fact-checkers wanted more transparency around the tools they use as well as the process.
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Here's the AP again:Any attempt to change its core functions or disable virus checkers results in an automatic reboot cycle.
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Facebook will then take that user-generated data and send it to the small team of fact-checkers from FactCheck.
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Hence their leaning, so heavily, on third party fact-checkers to try to outsource their lack of any editorial values.
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This means the fact checkers are in effect working as content raters for Facebook in order to help train machines.
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The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers like Snopes and the AP to flag inaccurate news stories.
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The spokesperson said the company is working on eliminating the need for each link to be submitted by fact-checkers.
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There will also be a way for fact-checkers to simultaneously review several articles about the same subject, they said.
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Two of the stories were caught by Facebook and third-party fact-checkers, but the last story was completely missed.
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In that period of chaos, Lil Wayne was playing 4D space basketball while the rest of rap was playing checkers.
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The multicolor checkers stand out against the dark sky, persistent like the always-flashing buttons of an arcade game machine.
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Fact-checkers enlisted by Facebook told Politico last month their efforts have been harmed because Facebook refuses to share information.
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Nonpartisan fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked this claim, as you can see at PolitiFact, FactCheck, CNN, and the Washington Post.
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Both partners were approved by Poynter's International Fact Checking Network Board, which Facebook has partnered with to approve fact-checkers.
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For the Italian elections this year, for example, the company hired independent fact-checkers to flag fake news and hoaxes.
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President: Richard Nixon (while serving as vice president) Notes: Checkers was the only thing that made Richard Nixon seem human.
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If Facebook's algorithm has decided you're trustworthy, the report then might go to the social network's third-party fact checkers.
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It has also enlisted independent fact checkers to flag stories, which is a strategy that has come under some criticism.
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Of the 43 participants, you'll find independent fact-checkers like Politifact and Snopes (both of which publicly outline their process).
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Their biggest questions: Who are the third-party checkers that Facebook will use to check stories that have been shared?
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"Disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers," the note read (which is Facebook's exact wording for how it labels dubious stories).
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Defying talk of a "post-truth" politics, they are even bringing a retinue of live fact-checkers along with them.
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It was probably the weirdest presidential press conference ever—like a batshit, off-the-rails version of Nixon's "Checkers" routine.
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In the early 1950s, before Tennis for Two was even developed, computers were already playing things like checkers and nim.
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Mr. Trump has driven many fact checkers to near madness in the last year, and Mr. Schwartz was not surprised.
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His campaign has repeatedly aired ads that independent fact-checkers determined were false, which Facebook has allowed to remain up.
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He was playing three-dimensional chess while the media, the Clinton campaign and virtually everyone else was still playing checkers.
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We are now looking to extend it to checkers, Chinese chess, and other board games traditionally played by two players.
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Fact-checkers called Trump's use of this stat misleading because so few cases are handled by the federal court system.
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It is the front page of the conservative internet, and claims tend to spread before fact-checkers can render verdicts.
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In a bid to increase transparency, users will also now see badges that identify which fact-checkers reviewed an article.
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Posts and videos that shared conspiracy theories were clearly marked as false, once they had been reviewed by fact checkers.
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The fact-checkers determined that Trump was talking about Democratic efforts to politicize the virus, rather than the virus itself.
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Just as checkers can be won through tree-search, so too can many semantic relations be learned from text statistics.
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She did make some factual errors about military spending and she did bristle when the fact checkers came after her.
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Kyl notes that despite conservative concerns with the Facebook Fact-checking process, Facebook accepted fact-checkers affiliated with conservative publishers.
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Facebook built relationships with independent fact-checkers, so they weren't the sole deciders of what was or wasn't a lie.
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Facebook built relationships with independent fact-checkers, so they weren't the sole deciders of what was or wasn't a lie.
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The best checkers are allies, suggesting fixes and zooming out to make each article as truthful and helpful as possible.
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Not all lifestyle magazines are created equal in their purveyance of accuracy (and some print magazines lack fact-checkers altogether).
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Facebook has since taken steps to combat false information, including enlisting third-party fact checkers and promoting trustworthy news sources.
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Somehow, the notion of "facts" and "truth" became elitist in Trump's hands: These fact-checkers work for the mainstream media.
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The owner of Checkers and Usave retail chains said it is battling with currency devaluations in Angola, Zambia and Nigeria.
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Facebook noted that it does not send political ads to be run on its platform to third-party fact-checkers.
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Some fact-checkers are growing frustrated, saying the lack of information is undermining Facebook's efforts to combat false news reports.
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She added that the fact-checkers are just one of many ways that Facebook is attempting to curb false news.
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The company currently does not allow third-party fact-checkers to use Facebook's tools to fact-check candidates and parties.
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But then again, he's been engaged in an expensive game of chess, while the rule of law was playing checkers.
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But unlike most fact-checkers, the account conducts its work in full view of the public, as loudly as possible.
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Trending up: Facebook expanded Instagram's third-party fact checking program globally, to allow fact-checkers to assess and rate misinformation.
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I happen to be writing this on a commercial flight from New York to Boston (Flight 85033, for fact checkers).
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He preferred to use his own set, with its smoothly inlaid points, its simple wood checkers, stained light and dark.
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Fact checkers very rarely even reach out to ask questions about research that would undermine the media's gun control narrative.
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Facebook has partnered with fact-checkers such as Snopes so that users can flag any news they suspect is fake.
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She plays checkers with the captains of nearby whaling ships, and records a visit by some "Esquimaux" selling fox skins.
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Fact checkers are out of control, and on the issue of guns they no longer even try to pretend impartiality.
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But you were one of the fact-checkers who tried to work with those people—or at least, Snopes was.
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When stories are rated by fact checkers as false, they are shown lower in the News Feeds to limit their distribution.
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It worked in the primaries, where he was able to stand out from the crowd, steamrolling opponents and flustering fact-checkers.
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Several fact-checkers participating in the program confirmed to Gizmodo that Facebook is paying them as part of the agreement. Factcheck.
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The great majority of journalists, fact-checkers and independent experts who have looked at the situation say that&aposs not true.
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It's the fact-checkers' paradox: even as they gain new powers to hold politicians accountable, lies are more persistent than ever.
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In game-theory terms, Go is a perfect information game like chess and checkers—no elements of chance, no information hidden.
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It's become a nightmare for fact-checkers and political regulators, and a goldmine for groups like MBL trying to politically organize.
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"I think Facebook understands that a combination of artificial intelligence and human fact checkers is probably a winning one," he said.
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Facebook has cracked down on anti-vaccination misinformation, banned white nationalism and hired fact-checkers that de-prioritize posts containing misinformation.
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Now I expect the signatories to intensify their monitoring and reporting and increase their cooperation with fact-checkers and research community.
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In May, Harris told CNN that prosecuting parents was "never the intention," though fact-checkers have said that claim is misleading.
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Fact-checkers weren't clear on how Facebook was determining which stories to show or hide from them and in which order.
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The board is made up of well-known fact-checkers from around the world, including from the Washington Post and Poynter.
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"We talked to real-life fact-checkers and realized they would be in the loop for quite some time," says Pomerleau.
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So it takes an entire village of writers, checkers, producers, librarians, and, yes, Trebek himself to fit all the pieces together.
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These Related Articles will show alternative takes on the same topic by different news sources, or truthiness reports from fact checkers.
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Instead, the company says, it reduces the distribution of content that is flagged and confirmed to be false by fact checkers.
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The proposal also encompasses fake news, suggesting tech companies may be forced to employ more fact-checkers to combat the issue.
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The company previously introduced "disputed" tags, which would appear when people shared stories that had been debunked by Facebook's fact checkers.
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Reuters reporters have received nearly a dozen videos allegedly showing fraud at polling stations, with several since disproved by fact-checkers.
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The Hurricanes assigned forwards Josh Jooris and Marcus Kruger to the American Hockey League's Charlotte Checkers after they passed through waivers.
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The case centres on Shoprite Checkers' event ticket selling subsidiary, Computicket, which was also charged and fined 10 percent of turnover.
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But Trump's tweets over the weekend proved that he is not playing chess or 3-D chess or even checkers. Terrible!
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The underlying message is the same: Trump is always playing three-dimensional chess while the media covering him is playing checkers.
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The press conference, which lasted over an hour, was insane—like a drunk, raving, Watergate-era Nixon doing the "Checkers" speech.
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The fact-checkers will be given tools to verify not only written articles shared on Facebook but also images and videos.
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Some on the fight though have criticized the system, saying the fact checkers are biased against stories with a conservative slant.
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From nurses and grocery store checkers to fashion designers and farmers, technology is central to core job skills in the future.
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Fact-checkers deemed the claim inaccurate; more than 70 percent of the people under investigation were not covered by the ban.
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These and other technologies are certain to keep the fact-checkers busy, making their work more difficult but even more important.
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The majority of Facebook users aren't fact-checkers or journalists, as a quick scroll through your own Newsfeed will readily confirm.
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This made-to-order set replaces plastic playing pieces with checkers covered in sting ray leather and an ivory doubling cube.
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While Shoprite-branded stores' sales have grown by 373 percent over the past 12 months, Checkers' have risen by 11.1 percent.
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All of those unpaid or underpaid interns, fact-checkers, personal assistants and aides — they are tomorrow's writers, directors, artists and editors.
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Sanders and Biden's exchanges on Social Security have been covered by fact checkers before from the Washington Post, Politifact, and FactCheck.org.
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It is also joining the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to launch a $28500 million grant program to support fact checkers.
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Our fact checkers had a busy weekend looking into statements about Russian interference by Mr. Trump and a top Facebook executive.
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That wasn't true, fact-checkers said it wasn't true, but it was a good ad anyway, and Tillis narrowly defeated Hagan.
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I ate the fully loaded hot dogs from Dairy Queen, Checkers, Shake Shack, and Five Guys to see whose was best.
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I reached out to political science researchers, professional fact-checkers, and philosophers who think about these matters to get their take.
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It is also joining the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to launch a $28500 million grant program to support fact checkers.
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Facebook said it relies on technology and feedback from its community to flag potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review.
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Pick n Pay rival Shoprite Holdings launched a one-hour grocery delivery service named Sixty60 at its Checkers supermarkets in November.
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Whether fictional fact checkers were required to assess the validity of facts that were, in fact, fiction, you will never know.
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Shaquille O'Neal, Bryant's longtime teammate in Los Angeles, recalled how Bryant would say others were playing checkers while he played chess.
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Since March, users have been able to report stories that seem untrue and send them to a queue for the checkers.
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The app will add "false information" labels that obscure posts that have been debunked by Facebook's fact checkers, the company announced.
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And in the United States, Facebook's core market, The Hill reported in January that Facebook has 26 full-time fact checkers.
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Sanders has been repeating this exaggeration since at least 2009, when fact-checkers at PolitiFact first noted that it wasn't true.
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He says the plan is to enlist third-party fact-checkers from organizations such as The Associated Press, Snopes and PolitiFact.
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The GOP comes to work ready for full-contact boxing while Democrats were setting up for a friendly game of checkers.
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Fact checkers report that never has a president told so many falsehoods and exaggerations, and worse, he never corrects his lies.
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Contrary to Mr. Trump's suggestions, fact checkers and news outlets have called out Mr. Obama for failing to fulfill that pledge.
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Since 2016 Facebook has been leaning heavily on a network of local third party 'partner' fact-checkers to help identify and mitigate the spread of fakes in different markets — including checkers for written content and also photos and videos, the latter in an effort to combat fake memes before they have a chance to go viral and skew perceptions.
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While Brown's pointed out the unsuitability of enlisting Facebook's "engineers" as fact checkers, many critics are in fact calling for Facebook to rely on third-party fact checkers, as it currently does for the non-political ads that run on its platform, or to cease running political ads until it has figured out a viable solution.
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Fact-checkers flagged it as "false," a designation that earns the video a captioned warning and a reduced presence in News Feeds.
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When stories are flagged as potentially false, either by Facebook users or the company's own technology, they're sent to the fact-checkers.
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Facebook seems to be using the rating system more as a way to direct resources and deploy fact-checkers to review content.
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Ananny found that fact-checkers had little information and no input into the design of the dashboard they use to identify stories.
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Last month, fact-checkers started speaking out about their disappointment with the lack of provided data on the impact of their work.
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The sources for the report cast doubt on the true impact that third-party fact-checkers such as themselves can actually have.
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Fact-checkers who spoke to The Guardian added to previous complaints about Facebook's lack of transparency about the impact of their work.
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Su noted the feature provides a way for Facebook to give extra context to what you're seeing — like information from fact checkers.
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"Some of the most dishonest people in media are the so-called fact-checkers," he said to resounding boos from the crowd.
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The company says it will leave the video online and notify users that independent fact-checkers had deemed it had been manipulated.
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Facebook has launched several fact-checking initiatives over the past few years, partnering with multiple third-party fact-checkers around the world.
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The moves come at a time when Facebook has been pilloried for a decision not to send political ads to fact-checkers.
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The system relies on third-party fact-checkers, like Snopes and Politifact, to evaluate the factual accuracy of articles reported by users.
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And fact-checkers like Daniel Dale have already debunked Trump's assertions about how he uniquely foresaw the pre-9/11 threat... Overcompensating?
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Part of Facebook's response to domain cycling is to completely block the domain once it's been identified by third-party fact-checkers.
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"The disputed flag was difficult to scale to other markets, to scale where there are not as many fact checkers," Lyons said.
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In the end, Facebook's solution seems to be a solid compromise that will leave both fact-checkers and free speech absolutists unsatisfied.
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These are all questions fact-checkers and Facebook are asking themselves, but not ones there has been a serious public debate over.
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And it's not like the company isn't aware of efforts at other companies — fact-checkers have repeatedly asked Twitter for similar partnerships.
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And Facebook will continue to detect people commenting "fake" or "hoax" on links to power down-ranking and referrals to fact checkers.
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Judged by their own objectives, fact-checkers appear moderately satisfied with the partnership, rating it on average a 20183 out of 5.
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The company said it partnered with local fact-checkers and has come up with more robust ways of verifying political ad buyers.
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Otway says Instagram uses a combination of factors to determine whether a reported post is passed on to third-party fact-checkers.
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Reuters earlier this month found instances of edited posts circulating on Facebook which the company's own fact-checkers had said were false.
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Even fact-checkers have asked the company for greater transparency and metrics to gauge the value of their work and its effect.
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The social network has a separate set of tools to discourage the distribution of fake news with help from outside fact checkers.
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For example, if an article has been reviewed by fact checkers, they will show the fact-checking stories below the original post.
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Employing armies of fact-checkers is an important response to fake news, but ask any political strategist how to tackle a smear.
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In addition, using laypeople rather than third-party professional fact-checkers means large numbers of ratings can be easily and frequently acquired.
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As a result, Facebook has chosen not to fact-check political ads, though commercial ads are subject to third-party fact-checkers.
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Titan described how they played checkers -- and that one of the Navy SEALs sitting alongside them at the press conference always won.
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Other fact-checkers are more sanguine, recognizing the limits of exposing online hoaxes, but also standing by the utility of the effort.
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But several fact-checkers have noted that is not the case and that Puerto Rico has thus far received about $85033 billion.
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Facebook had previously been particularly focused on artificial intelligence to combat fake reports, but has since increased investment in human fact-checkers.
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It tasked a bunch of third-party fact-checkers to flag and weed out fake and misleading content from its News Feed.
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It's reasonable and valid for fact-checkers to want to have some hard evidence indicating that their admirable work isn't in vain.
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" On its website , the social network says it works with third-party fact-checkers in a "non-partisan international fact-checking network.
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Here's how some of the ringside fact-checkers saw things: NYT, NPR, CBS News, the Guardian, PolitiFact, ABC News and USA Today.
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Fact-checkers wandered into false equivalency territory Tuesday night after President Trump's Oval Office address on immigration and Democrats' response to it.
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More resources to curb fake news: They announced another program to work with third-party fact checkers to identify hoaxes on Facebook.
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Various fact-checkers at the time reported that there was no law keeping Trump from releasing his tax returns while under audit.
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While Rappler's fact checkers work closely with Facebook to investigate and report their findings, they believe the company could do much more.
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The grants for fact checkers are intended to help expand their capacities and translate fact checks to different languages, among other things.
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Reuters found that when debunked posts of Kumar were shared, an alert popped up with a link to the fact-checkers' analysis.
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She noted that Check Your Fact, like all fact-checkers Facebook partners with, is certified by Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
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Facebook said it relied on the Poynter Institute, an American journalism organization, to certify its fact-checkers and review their ethical standards.
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Instagram was already sending false information to fact checkers and listing official health sources atop the search results for coronavirus-related queries.
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As Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate in 1952, he had pleaded poverty as evidence of good character during his famous "Checkers" speech.
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Plenty of people have taken care of bountiful indoor forests armed with nothing but an old Checkers cup and a nurturing attitude.
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I'm not saying Goop makes false claims, and I think it's great that they hired fact-checkers to work on their team.
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The lounge has a variety of games, such as dominoes and checkers as well as coffee table books about the actual Riviera.
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Facebook plans to give guidance to third-party fact-checkers about when to fact-check political speech contained in sponsored influencer posts.
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The agency debunked the story on its website, alerted independent fact-checkers, and warned organizations like the AARP that it was bunk.
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Bears center Kale Kessy locked horns with Checkers D-man Derek Sheppard in the 83nd period -- and that's when things escalated QUICKLY.
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" Pareene notes that "the trouble is, fact-checkers have expanded their purview from checking strictly empirical statements to 'checking' contestable political statements.
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If you try to share the post, Facebook issues a warning saying that independent fact-checkers have said it contains false information.
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Third-party fact checkers also review videos, and Facebook limits their distribution if the videos are determined to be fake or misleading.
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It's just another claim widely debunked by numerous media fact-checkers who correctly report that, in fact, he originally supported the war.
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The company will stop politicians from running ads that directly link to content that has already been debunked by its fact-checkers.
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Unfortunately, the cliché fits all too well: Washington is playing checkers while Tehran is playing not merely chess, but three-dimensional chess.
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"The press blackout came after several of @Ocasio2018's public comments were scrutinized by the media and fact-checkers alike."https://t.
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Sanders has been repeating this same exaggeration since at least 2009, when fact-checkers at PolitiFact first noted that it wasn't true.
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As numerous fact-checkers have observed, he seems to be getting even looser with the truth as he grows into the job.
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They were about 33 percent less likely to view fact-checkers as reliable, compared with those who did not see the graphic.
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"The misinformation filters are the same across Facebook that we've previously talked about – downranking clickbait, ratings from third-party fact checkers" they said.
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They know, and even value, the fact that his words have not passed through a gauntlet of spinners, prose smoothers, and fact-checkers.
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WIRED's head of research, Joanna Pearlstein, and her crack team of fact-checkers in San Francisco will be furiously scrutinizing the candidates' statements.
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It also struggled to handle fake news on its platform, eventually hiring third-party fact-checkers who themselves were skeptical of Facebook's efforts.
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"Using machine learning we're able to identify and demote duplicates of articles that were rated false by fact-checkers," Lyons said to BuzzFeed.
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According to Woodford, these fact-checkers perform reverse-image searches and analyze image metadata to determine the validity of the images and videos.
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Although AI systems have topped the best players at checkers, chess, Othello, and even Go, no-limit Hold 'Em creates a different obstacle.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called on the tech community to create "spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment," to counter online terrorism.
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There are headphones so you don't have to listen to SpongeBob SquarePants and, crucially for us, the backseat touchscreens also include multiplayer checkers.
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The 21-year-old Russian was second in goals (15) and third in points (30) in 55 games with the Checkers thgis season.
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The New York Times had 18 fact checkers and Bloomberg had a live fact checking stream on screen as it broadcast the debate.
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The pattern began with Facebook's 2016 announcement that it would partner with third-party fact-checkers to flag false information on the platform.
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Nearly two and a half years later, those fact-checkers have only recently begun to receive data about the effectiveness of their work.
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It's also providing better tools to allow users to flag content in their feeds, and sending those stories to third-party fact checkers.
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Facebook works with third-party fact-checkers in 14 countries who review content spreading on the platform that's been flagged as potentially false.
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Fact-checkers don't exist in all countries, and different places have different standards of journalism as well as varying levels of press freedom.
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There are the fact-checkers, the photographers, the writers, all getting together to decide what they want you to see or not see.
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Facebook is hiring moderators, killing fake accounts, making ads public and searchable, and working with fact checkers to reduce the spread of misinformation.
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He also said Facebook, Twitter, Google and WhatsApp have committed to cracking down on fake news by deploying fact checkers and grievance officers.
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As the report explains, fact-checkers work through a queue of content that has been flagged by users as "possibly false" on Facebook.
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But just to take Politifact as one example, its fact-checkers have reviewed 74 stories, statements, and promise updates from The Daily Caller.
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A Facebook representative told CNN on Thursday that the Pelosi video had been referred to the company's third-party fact checkers for review.
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He has used Twitter to tweet and retweet false and misleading information at a volume that has challenged the bandwidth of fact checkers.
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If a story is ruled false by fact-checkers, Facebook will add a "disputed" tag to the article anytime a user shares it.
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My 92-year-old grandma is an absolute punk when she beats me at Checkers, and I call her out every damn time.
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Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, doesn't think it's a good idea for moderators to act as fact-checkers.
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The total dimensions of the checkers are 7 inches in diameter, and the game ends up 6 feet long by 5 feet tall.
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Fact-checkers are often journalists who set up non-profits or work at mainstream media outlets to scour the web for viral falsehoods.
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Even as the company policy cranks up pressure on external fact-checkers by giving politicians the green light to run ads that lie.
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Full Fact also called for the program to be expanded to Instagram, so that fact-checkers could directly check content on the platform.
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That includes digital literacy initiatives in Brazil and India ahead of elections, and offering forwarding systems for sending questionable information to fact checkers.
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Clinton is trustworthy, even though she's been rated by PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checkers, as much more honest than her opponent.
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US negotiators are preparing for talks during their 90-day trade truce with China, and this isn't a simple game of Chinese checkers.
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And just like Trump, Gillespie hyped up the threat to the point that Washington Post fact checkers deemed it a "two Pinocchios" exaggeration.
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The fact that Kim made a surprise visit to Beijing last week points to the reality that China is playing chess, not checkers.
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In 18353, the city of Birmingham made it illegal for a black person and a white person to play dominoes or checkers together.
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Mr. Putin's admirers often compare him to a chess player as a way of stressing his strategic nous (Barack Obama merely plays checkers).
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He has struck new deals on the latter but his statements on the former have frequently been criticized as misleading by fact-checkers.
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The audience that most needs to hear the fact-checkers' conclusions — the ideological partisans — often are the people least likely to believe them.
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After all, he's managed to dupe the fact checkers into thinking he opposed the Iran nuclear deal just because he voted against it.
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Beyond working with independent fact-checkers and government election commissions, it's tasking nonprofits to help be its eyes and ears on the ground.
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The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February.
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The story feels companionly, like we're hanging out by her bedside, and may even be asked to play a game of checkers. Mrs.
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Besides the professional journalists, think about everyone else who will be contributing content: photo and video editors, facts and grammar checkers and others.
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When accounts share stories that have been disputed by the company's fact-checkers, Facebook can use its algorithm to limit that account's reach.
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It also took out newspaper ads to educate people about misinformation and pledged to work more closely with police and independent fact-checkers.
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When its fact checkers determine that a story is false, Facebook pushes it down on users' News Feeds in favor of other material.
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I ate the fully-loaded hot dogs at Dairy Queen, Checkers, Shake Shack, and Five Guys to see whose dog was best-dressed.
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Beyond the usual darts and arcade boxes you can play Jenga, a variety of board games, chess, checkers and, best of all, Skeeball.
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In the 18th century, people commonly arranged furniture for tea drinking, needlework and checkers, later returning it to its place against the walls.
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The union would include the company's full-time and part-time editorial staff, including editors, fact checkers, designers, producers and social media strategists.
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So far, however, Checkers and Rally's has resisted broad-based pay increases, choosing instead to focus on helping employees earn more through advancement.
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Ours is one of 2256 countries where Facebook has third-party fact checkers trying to weed out misinformation from the platform's News Feed.
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Liberated briefly from cellular coverage, people completed crossword puzzles, read detective novels, played checkers, and, mostly, shot the breeze with anyone and everyone.
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Another was an exaggeration about health care Sanders has repeated for more than a decade even as fact checkers have repeatedly debunked it.
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The labels it places on content determined by independent fact-checkers to be false will be "much more prominent," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
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In the end, fact-checkers make excellent amateur detectives because they don't stop until reality wins -- not agendas or interpretations, but irrefutable facts.
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But he has been using his incorrect wording since at least 20033, when fact-checkers at PolitiFact first noted that it wasn't true.
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The first full paragraph of President Donald Trump's Time interview contains enough falsehoods to make fact-checkers around the world groan in unison.
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Facebook has recently hired fact checkers in the United States and Germany to flag false reports, not all of them Russian in origin.
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But he has been using his incorrect wording since at least 2009, when fact-checkers at PolitiFact first noted that it wasn't true.
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Before the post goes live, they'll see a notice that fact checkers say it contains false information, with a link to more information.
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According to Bickert, algorithms detect when comments under a post voice suspicions that the post is fake, automatically flagging it for fact-checkers.
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In the next month, Facebook will also begin labeling content that has been rated false or partly false by third-party fact-checkers.
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Nonpartisan fact-checkers have said that the Georgia Democrat has inflated his resume regarding his national security work as a former congressional aide.
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Clegg, who was previously Britain's deputy prime minister, also said Facebook did not submit original content from politicians to its independent fact-checkers.
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These fact checkers are being set up as the ultimate arbiters of the news you get on Facebook and other social media sites.
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Clegg, who was previously Britain's deputy prime minister, also said Facebook did not submit original content from politicians to its independent fact-checkers.
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If it is declared false by the fact-checkers, it is tagged as "disputed" and its ranking in the news feed is lowered.
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In the video, there are only a couple of references to Checkers' products, such as Mr. Ross's unequivocal praise of the French fries.
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Those campaigns usually are also quick to walk back statements made by candidates when fact-checkers prove them to be false or misleading.
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She tells me she will be so mad at me unless we play checkers "on the red board" and get a chocolate stick.
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Hopefully you'll spend the next several months on a beach, playing checkers with your wife and not paying any attention to the election.
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Facebook is approaching fake photos and videos the same way it's approaching fake stories: Responding to flagged posts by using outside fact-checkers.
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The fact that Trump ignores the fact-checkers does not mean that fact-checking will not have an important impact on this race.
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Facebook recently parted ways with Snopes but has 39 other third-party fact-checkers it is working with globally, four of which — FactCheck.
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Though debunked by fact-checkers,one rumor claimed that first pup Bo Obama got his own personal flight to join the family in Hawaii.
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The anatomy of a lieSeveral fact-checkers detailed how hoaxes are spread visually in their region, typically around contentious political topics and political campaigns.
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"Facebook has created the platform and understands how the platform works, and we're the fact-checkers and we fact-check the content," she said.
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To win the inaugural contest in 2001, Christopher Peikert wrote an algorithm that played a mean game of Konane, a sort of Hawaiian checkers.
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Since their initial report that Trump was lying about this, several different fact-checkers looked into it and all concluded that Trump was lying.
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"The Commission has asked the Tribunal to impose an administrative penalty of 10 percent of Computicket and Shoprite Checkers annual turnover," the commission said.
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It involves making a statement about a piece of media, rather than offloading that statement (and the accompanying accountability) to third-party fact-checkers.
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Scroll ahead to find out which of these go-to orders — from McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Checkers, Shake Shack, and Five Guys — reigned supreme.
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According to the fact-checkers at the Washington Post, Mr Trump uttered 317 "false or misleading" statements in his first 63 days as president.
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"We're not in a place where they're just using the human [checkers as] experiments and will then cut them all off suddenly," he said.
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Until, that is, people started to complain, prompting fact-checking schemes, which in turn generated complaints about the political biases of those fact-checkers.
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Though debunked by fact-checkers, one rumor claimed that first pup Bo Obama got his own personal flight to join the family in Hawaii.
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The Post said Twitter did not comment but Facebook declined to remove the videos, even after its independent fact-checkers deemed the content false.
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" Diddy says he believes Jay will do some incredible things in his partnership with the NFL -- explaining, "It's time to play chess not checkers.
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Its efforts have involved adding fact-checkers, limiting the spread of problematic stories, and trying to highlight when stories have been flagged as fake.
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The new contingent of Canadian fact-checkers will review news stories published to Facebook that have been flagged or that they identify as problematic.
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The company has shied away from ranking publications on credibility and instead attempted to combat misinformation by employing stopgap measures, including independent fact-checkers.
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He called Holt's factual citation of a 2002 interview in which Trump endorsed the war in Iraq "wrong, wrong, wrong," as fact-checkers disagreed.
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Then, Full Fact's fact-checkers will take over and check the content for accuracy, rating it as true, false or a mix of both.
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"I am going to leave it to the fact checkers to go through all of Donald Trump's claims," Clinton said in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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The new tools will be made available to help users flag content for Facebook's third-party fact-checkers to review ahead of election season.
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If things continue at this pace, fact-checkers will come out of this presidency bleary-eyed and in need of a very long vacation.
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Daniel "Uptown" Funke answers yesterday's Guardian story about disgruntled third-party Facebook fact-checkers with a survey and finds that overall sentiment leans positive.
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Tessa Lyons, a product manager for the News Feed, said that articles labeled false by fact checkers were distributed 80 percent less on average.
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Instagram previously announced that it would hide posts fact-checkers had deemed "false," but there was no way for individual users to report posts.
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These malware checkers, known as "counter antivirus services" or "no distribute scanners," have become an increasing focus for both security researchers and law enforcement.
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A Brazilian fact-checking industry sprung up to counteract the rumors, and the fact checkers themselves were soon the subject of a misinformation campaign.
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A Facebook representative told CNN on Thursday that the doctored Pelosi video had been referred to the company's third-party fact checkers for review.
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But fact checkers took his words literally, as if Trump suggested Obama sat at a table with Islamic terrorists and helped create the group.
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Instead, Ross allowed himself to have the fast food from Checkers and Wingstop that he always loved, but only between noon and 5 p.m.
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Carson smirks that all the chain stores (Winn Dixies, Checkers, Hooters) have been replaced by other chain stores, a revolving door of ubiquitous facades.
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Frankfurt's paradigm is helpful in explaining why refuting Trump's fibs on a case-by-case basis, as fact-checkers exhaustively do, has its limits.
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Those without seats loiter in hallways, and others able to bear the sweltering heat outside play checkers under a canopy of overgrown mango trees.
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It said it sends ads to third-party fact-checkers based on multiple signals, which may include getting feedback that an ad is false.
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A survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that nearly half of those questioned feel media fact-checkers favor one side.
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In policy terms, it's always been hard to deny that Warren plays master-level chess while her opponents, left and right, dabble in checkers.
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On May 29, the parent company of fast-food chains Checkers and Rally's informed customers it had found malware at more than 100 restaurants.
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Richard Nixon might never have even gotten there if he hadn't used Checkers the cocker spaniel as a diversion from a campaign finance scandal.
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Facebook's fact checkers eventually marked the video as false, but it had already spread widely before Facebook down-ranked it in users' News Feeds.
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Republicans have questioned Ossoff's national security credentials while serving as a congressional aide and some nonpartisan fact-checkers have said he's inflated his resume.
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The fact checkers' adversaries, fake news peddlers, sit at screens too, pumping out misinformation disguised as fact that often exploits ethnic or religious divides.
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The brand's new Pride Collection uses multicolored checkers, stars, dots, and tie-dye to make a statement about accepting people for who they are.
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When Facebook's third-party fact-checkers verify an article is inaccurate, Facebook will shrink the size of the link post in the News Feed.
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Last month it announced a slew of feature updates including partnerships with third-party fact checkers to add warning labels to fake news stories.
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The 2016 campaign has featured so many lies that many have dubbed it the "post-truth" election, but fact-checkers are still in demand.
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But then he went on to try to prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton by using falsehoods that many fact-checkers have already discredited.
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Another fried rice is littered with fat red checkers of Mexican chorizo, wafting spices meant to evoke a taco — sacrilege, but somehow it works.
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Publishers, even prestigious ones, often do not generally fact-check their books, though some authors pay for fact-checkers out of their own pockets.
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Mr. Trump, after all, has made so many claims that stretch the bounds of accuracy that full-time fact-checkers struggle to keep up.
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Facebook has also been sharing contagion prevention tips atop Instagram's home screen, sending misinformation to fact-checkers for review, and providing data to researchers.
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Shoprite said it has also allocated special till points for pensioners and vulnerable people including those with disabilities at its Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets.
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Our approach will focus less on banning misinformation, and more on surfacing additional perspectives and information, including that fact checkers dispute an item's accuracy.
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Shoprite said it had also allocated special till points for pensioners and vulnerable people including those with disabilities at its Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets.
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Solid colors include black, baby blue, midnight purple, and rouge, while jacquards (dots and checkers) include black, baby blue, lime green, rouge, and pink.
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Or the president, who fact-checkers have demonstrated has told more lies in less time than any other modern occupant of the Oval Office?
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"Posts with this claim have been rated as false by third-party fact-checkers and we&aposre dramatically reducing their distribution," a spokesperson said.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: When I was growing up, cabs meant grandparents and going for treats in Checkers with jump seats and soft upholstery.
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" And Ms. Hassan's spokesman, Aaron Jacobs, said the "completely unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud have been debunked by independent fact checkers time and again.
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But a month later, under pressure, the company announced a slew of efforts designed to combat the problem, including the arrangement with fact-checkers.
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"None of these political ads were rejected on the basis of being deemed false by our fact-checkers," a Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
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Soon Mr. Rigo also was making breads for restaurants like L'Hermitage and the dining room at the Checkers hotel, where Thomas Keller was chef.
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Facebook will also demote but not remove content shared by a politician that has previously been debunked by the company's fact checkers, Clegg said.
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And the deal's job-creation potential is much lower than the hundreds of thousands Trump has mentioned, according to The Washington Post's fact-checkers.
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The Post said Twitter did not comment, but Facebook declined to remove the videos, even after its independent fact-checkers deemed the content false.
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In the aftermath, the company announced changes, including working with independent fact-checkers and starting a news literacy campaign to help people spot disinformation.
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Fact checkers have generally sided against Mr. Cruz's suggestion that a large majority of the Sandy relief bill was directed at non-storm efforts.
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The first group of iMessage apps also includes a number of games, including word games and things like chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe.
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Fact-checkers in Germany called out a fake news article circulated on Facebook about Frans Timmermans, the Socialists' top candidate in the European elections.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has launched a crowd-funded news platform that aims to combat fake news with the help of journalists and fact-checkers.
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Facebook friends In December, Snopes became one of a group of online fact-checkers helping Facebook label some stories on its pages as fake news.
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In a blog post, Facebook said Pages that "repeatedly share stories marked as false" by third-party fact-checkers will be banned from buying ads.
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Facebook is arguing that it isn't handing over the internal data to the fact-checkers because it's looking out for the privacy of its users.
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Even if Facebook did hand over the internal data to the fact-checkers, the question remains—what is the purpose of this fake news system?
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Facebook suspended 30,000 accounts in France ahead of the first round of its presidential election last month and uses outside fact-checkers in the country.
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The claim, which circulated among far-right websites, has been labeled as false and unfounded by fact-checkers from the Washington Post, Politifact, and Snopes.
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The boys also talked about how they kept up their spirits playing checkers with members of the Thai Navy SEALs while waiting to be rescued.
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Now Facebook will also show Related Articles including third-party fact checkers before you read an article about a topic that many people are discussing.
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In recent months, the company has created mechanisms to try to limit misinformation, including flagging inaccurate news stories and working with third-party fact checkers.
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That is why it is so important for professional fact-checkers to scrutinize every politician — to make it clear they are independent of both parties.
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Editor's Note: Tyler would also like everyone to know that he soundly beat Phil in the inaugural Verge Detroit Auto Show Chrysler Pacifica Checkers Tournament.
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These things, you know, have been repeatedly debunked by, you know, us, by Snopes, by all sorts of fact-checkers and yet these myths survive.
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This follows other attempts to show more contextual information for links, and to flag and algorithmically downgrade content that is deemed false by fact checkers.
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"[The update] should provide people easier access to additional perspectives and information, including articles by third-party fact-checkers," Facebook wrote in a blog post.
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Fact-checkers have debunked GOP claims that Joe Biden was acting with his son's interest in mind, and the former vice president has denied wrongdoing.
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He bragged continually ("Nobody has ever had crowds like Trump has had"), scrambling the fact-checkers of media outlets, some of whom he also decried.
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The New York brand is built upon the hard work of editors, writers, fact checkers, copy editors, photo editors, designers, producers, and social-media editors.
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In Facebook's Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep Up Georgia Wells and Lucas I. Alpert report that Facebook partner FactCheck.
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Linking tools like these to human fact-checkers and social media platforms could make it easier to minimize duplication of efforts and support each other.
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A common problem for fact-checkers is that their calls are often tied up with the merits of the underlying issues candidates are arguing about.
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Fact-checkers are unable to see if the "disputed" tags they add to articles actually have an effect and are not able to prioritize stories.
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"Disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers," the note read (which is Facebook's exact wording for how they're labeling dubious stories.) The warning made no difference.
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Buddy was Bill Clinton's labrador, Barney was George W Bush's terrier, Millie was George H.W. Bush's spaniel and Checkers was Richard Nixon's cocker spaniel 1.
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" Stokes-Lampard also highlighted that, "while some patients might want to use symptom-checkers in this way, not everyone will be happy to do so.
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The maneuvers by which civilization lives or dies are often compared to a chess match, but this looks more like an angry game of checkers.
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But the Democrat&aposs rapid-fire claims about the state of the economy and other issues have fact-checkers scrambling to provide a reality check.
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MARC THIESSEN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, actually, Juan, what he&aposs doing is while everybody else is playing checkers he is playing three-dimensional chess.
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For some publications that have drawn the attention of Google's third-party fact checkers like Snopes, though, the module displays an extra "Reviewed Claims" section.
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If Facebook's third-party fact-checkers limit themselves to flagging stories that are straightforward hoaxes, that will go a long way toward making them credible.
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Independent fact-checkers working with Facebook critiqued the company for not sharing enough information with them at the time on how their efforts were doing.
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The trouble for the official fact-checkers is that their messages reach only a fraction of the number of people who see the original stories.
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Facebook said it would address the problem by working with third-party fact checkers in a move that we've characterized as too little, too late.
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"To reduce latency in advance of elections, we wanted to ensure we gave fact checkers that ability," says Facebook's News Feed product manager Tessa Lyons.
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The Commission, the EU's executive, will also support the creation of an independent European network of fact-checkers and launch an online platform on disinformation.
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Users are now able to report news posts as "false," and the company is working with third-party fact-checkers to determine a story's accuracy.
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Critics also claim that Clinton lied to the families of the four Americans killed in Benghazi, but fact-checkers have said the evidence is unclear.
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Hackers use "checkers," or programs that can take a user's email address and quickly determine if it's being used as a login on other sites.
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Links to discouraging reports about polling places that may be inflated or misleading will be referred to fact-checkers under the new policy, Facebook said.
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The social network now works with 20 fact-checkers in several countries around the world, but it's still trying to find more to partner with.
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More thoughtful design could help solve this problem, and Facebook has already begun to label some disputed stories with the help of professional fact checkers.
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Question: Does anyone have a count of how many times he's done this, comparable to the running tallies fact checkers are keeping of his lies?
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Instead, Facebook warns people that post it along with users that see the post, that the post contains false information, citing third-party fact checkers.
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The Washington Post reported in August that Facebook secretly calculates scores that represent how often users' flags align with the analysis of independent fact-checkers.
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The company's current approach is to decrease the visibility of stories labeled false by third-party fact-checkers, in hopes of starving them of oxygen.
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I'm happy to see tools made available to readers that help report such trash, and happy that Facebook is working with third-party fact checkers.
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Facebook will also continue to rely on users to report false stories, which it will work with third-party fact-checkers to confirm and label.
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"I just felt this moment of gratitude that we had the most amazing fact-checkers who scrubbed every line of every speech," Hurwitz says now.
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So obviously, it's something like checkers was very easy to solve, that we could solve with classical software, classical computing, not really all that challenging.
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A story claiming China planned to admit the virus came from the lab was also circulating on Facebook but flagged by fact-checkers as false.
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There is no evidence to support Mr. Trump's claims, which have been discredited repeatedly by fact-checkers, that millions of people voted illegally in 2016.
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"It is not quite, as admirers present it, that Mr. Bloomberg is a chess master whose opponents play checkers," as The Times's Matt Flegenheimer reported.
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The company has used human fact checkers to flag misinformation, which can come to their attention through computer programs that identify suspicious keywords and trends.
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The names of only some of the historians involved have been released, and the extent of their involvement as "consultants" and fact checkers remains vague.
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Among the test changes, incorrect or misleading tweets from public figures would be corrected by fact-checkers and journalists who are verified on the platform.
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While fact-checkers don't have access to private groups, those who try to share previously flagged content into a private group will see an alert.
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It would be a really interesting course as you could first learn the history of board games, from chess and checkers to Catan and Scythe.
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Only one anonymous source was used in the story, and typical parts of CNN's workflow, such as fact checkers, were reportedly not utilized before publication.
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Four Republican senators sent a letter to Facebook, accusing the company of bias against conservatives and the fact-checkers of pushing a pro-abortion agenda.
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Instead of established news organizations, this pilot program will "leverage the Facebook community" to research potential fake news before it's routed to professional fact checkers.
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The reviewers are contractors tasked with spotting dubious-looking content, researching it, and then running it up the chain to Facebook&aposs partnered fact-checkers.
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But a number of fact-checkers are trying to untangle Trump's lies on top of lies about Alabama being in the path of the hurricane.
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"Hillary Clinton started the 'birther' controversy," Trump said, though fact-checkers have found no connection between the conspiracy theory and Clinton or her presidential campaign.
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