Like other Facebook fact-checking partners, BOOM is certified through the International Fact-Checking Network, a non-partisan international fact checking network at Poynter.
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Facebook's third-party fact-checking partners are approved by Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network.
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Fact-checking websites can also help, particularly when the fact-checking comes with a consequence.
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"There are fact-checking organizations, but there aren't a lot of fact-checking businesses," he said.
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Facebook says it will rely on Poynter's International Fact Checking Network to identify suitable fact-checking organizations.
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AFP extends its Facebook fact-checking into Arabic More fact-checking in Arabic feels like a good thing, whatever you feel about the efficacy of fact-checking in general: Agence France-Presse is extending its fact-checking deal with Facebook to counter fake news in Arabic, it said Wednesday.
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To achieve this, the company is relying on fact-checking provided by the Poynter Institute's International Fact Checking Network.
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The social network has been testing a new fact checking program that uses part-time contractors, who don't have professional fact-checking experience but who represent "diverse viewpoints," to aid in its larger fact-checking effort.
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He had come to try his own hand at fact-checking, with the help of The New Yorker's fact-checking department.
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Controversially, the company enforces nondisclosure agreements with fact-checking partners, leaving the facts about fact-checking in a state of shadow.
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Facebook's fact-checking In its fight against fake news, Facebook has partnered with fact-checking organizations to help establish whether content is authentic.
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Facebook has already launched the third-party fact-checking initiative in 14 countries, including the U.S., through partnerships with certified fact-checking news agencies.
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Today its expanding its photo and video fact checking program from four countries to all 23 of its fact-checking partners in 17 countries.
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The flagging program is a collaboration with a third-party fact-checking group that has accreditation from Poynter's International Fact Checking Code of Principles.
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Between the lines: Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network is considered credible, and is used to enforce standards for fact-checking broadly, not just at Facebook.
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Now, Facebook says it is expanding fact-checking for photos and videos to all of its 27 fact-checking partners in 17 countries around the world.
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Mosseri said Facebook would also work with third-party fact checking organizations that are part of the Poynter Institute's International Fact Checking Network to vet stories.
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The Duke video fact checking tool is one example of a browser extension under development that is intended to provide live fact checking of television information.
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Ellen Tordesillas, a journalist who helped found VERA Files, a fact-checking nonprofit in the Philippines, said they have been fact-checking photos and videos since 2016.
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"Fact-checking as a practice was part of the job for journalism, but none of the major news outlets have [dedicated] fact-checking services anymore," Barak said.
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" He said the company is working with "respected fact checking organizations" and journalists and media organizations "to better understand their fact checking systems and learn from them.
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The company quadrupled the number of fact-checking groups it works with worldwide over the last year and its subsidiary WhatsApp launched its first fact-checking service.
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The most notable update is that Facebook started fact-checking photos and videos this week in France, in addition to fact-checking text stories that people share.
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But the bigger concern is how Facebook has designed its fact-checking system to prevent other fact-checking partners from auditing the decision of The Daily Caller.
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Why it matters: The announcement comes as Snopes, one of the first online fact-checking websites, says it is reevaluating its relationship with the Facebook fact-checking unit.
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The company began fact-checking news on its site last spring, with help from independent third-party fact-checkers certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network.
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The social media giant said the new language support is part of its third-party fact-checking program in partnership with Africa Check, an independent fact-checking organization.
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You can fact check him in realtime, last time at the first debate, we had millions of people fact checking, so expect we'll have millions more fact checking.
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The social network announced the fact-checking pilot program with Boom in a company blog post, where it briefly explained how the fact-checking process on Facebook currently works.
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In Brazil, WhatsApp is working closely with a local fact-checking service called Comprova, the first fact-checking group to use the WhatsApp Business API to scan for misinformation.
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"In this particular case, this video would be eligible for fact-checking from one of our third-party fact-checking partners," a Facebook spokesperson told The Hill on Friday.
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Read more about our fact checking work ( here ).
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Earlier this month, Facebook announced that it was expanding its fact-checking program in India by adding six additional fact-checking partners that would check misinformation in seven Indian languages.
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Fact-checking is a big part of this, and a lot of it goes around the international fact-checking network, which is a network of networks with a common code.
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America's always-on partisan goggles hurt meaningful evaluation of fact-checking on Facebook Responding to this week's fight between ThinkProgress and the Weekly Standard, Alexios Mantzarlis says Americans' tendency to view everything through a partisan lens is obscuring important questions about fact-checking on Facebook: How literal should their fact-checking on Facebook be?
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Like on Google, the fact checking labels aren't limited to just the major fact checking sites — there's some common code that websites can embed to let search engines pull out their information.
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And to make sure it doesn't get embroiled in questions about what's considered fake and real, Facebook will work with fact-checking organizations that are part of Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network.
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More astonishingly, he has discredited (in the minds of his followers) our best newspapers, our best journalists, our best fact-checking organizations and even the institutions of media and fact-checking themselves.
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When asked about this, Facebook deflected responsibility, implying the audit process wouldn't be necessary because all of its fact-checking partners have been certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network.
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Finally, whatever impact fact-checking might have on how citizens view candidates appears dwarfed by those citizens' tendency to discredit fact-checking when they don't like what they see — even among Democrats.
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The data about the effectiveness of Facebook's fact-checking partnership initiative was contained in a brief email sent today by Jason White, Facebook's manager of news partnerships, to the company's fact-checking partners.
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Cultivate a stream of fact-checking information Sites like PolitiFact, which has already done a lot of the legwork to fact-check for tonight's debate, will be live fact-checking during the debate.
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Still, last week Facebook said it was ramping up its efforts to fight fake news, including expanding fact-checking programs to more countries and, for the first time, fact-checking photos and videos.
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The company last week said it was ramping up its efforts to fight fake news, including expanding fact-checking programs to more countries and for the first time fact-checking photos and videos.
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Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, announced today the launch of a new fact-checking initiative aimed at identifying misinformation on social media, in partnership with Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program.
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Bellingcat's main business, through all of this is, fact checking.
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Nothing goes together like "fact checking" and "Tucker Carlson," right?
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" The account was described as "Fact checking Labour from CCHQ.
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It only today began globally fact checking posts for misinformation.
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Facebook says the fact-checking program is aimed at fighting "the spread of false news," and the company has partnered with independent journalism initiative BOOM, which is certified by the International Fact-Checking Network.
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"In the last year misinformation has migrated from Facebook to WhatsApp," Govindraj Ethiraj, a journalist and founder of fact-checking website Boom, a partner in Facebook's fact-checking program, told the Wall Street Journal.
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The partnership will increase the number of verified fact-checkers working on Google Search and Google News, expand fact-checking efforts to more regions with language translations and addmore fact-checking tools and training.
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The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open Kirsten Han profiles Cofacts, a collaborative fact-checking service that uses bots to check information that's spreading virally on popular Asian messaging app Line.
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"You see those patterns," Gemma Mendoza, who leads fact-checking efforts as well as research on disinformation on social media at Phillipines-based Rappler, another publisher with Facebook's fact-checking program, told Gizmodo last year.
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"Fact-checking sounds attractive in the age of Trump," he writes.
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TG: So how is fact-checking evolving in this new era?
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TG: Is there a point of diminishing returns with fact-checking?
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Facebook's fact-checking efforts haven't been met with universal acclaim, however.
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Facebook is also making some small changes around fact-checking stories.
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You will also be fact checking scripts for our film unit.
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"At a social gathering, there is no fact-checking," he said.
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Lead Stories specializes in hoax debunking as well as fact-checking.
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Fact-checking, says Illades, is just starting to permeate Mexican newsrooms.
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You're either against fact checking, or you're very quiet about it.
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Certainly initially — given the fact-checking process itself necessarily takes time.
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The Encyclopedia Britannica also jumped in with some fact-checking help.
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Full Fact wants to build automated fact-checking tools for journalists.
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Before Miklos set out, he had to do some fact-checking.
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Wikipedia requires some fact-checking and digging a little bit deeper.
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Yet fact-checking, while necessary, is also only a partial solution.
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But Snopes, the fact-checking website, says this story is false.
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Fact-checking is one thing, I said; a cameo is another.
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Fact-checking site Snopes confirmed that the offer was a hoax.
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" The fact-checking site PolitiFact rated this lie "Pants on Fire.
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Ad fact-checking can't be done consistently in the United States.
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Farrow said his book went through a "meticulous" fact-checking process.
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Facebook has a third-party fact checking project, which is big.
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You would think fact-checking this stuff would limit its spread.
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And the moderators, naturally, did no fact-checking of any kind.
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But I apply the ethics of journalism in my fact-checking.
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Natalie: Honestly, the most hilarious moments did not involve fact-checking.
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Members call Facebook's investments essential to increasing fact-checking efforts online.
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The flagged content is then reviewed by Instagram's fact-checking program.
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Fact checking Trump is required work, but it has its limits.
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Obviously we have extensive fact-checking experience through numerous election cycles.
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One group that's exempt from the fact checking, though, is politicians.
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That's where traditional fact-checking tends to run into a wall.
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Afterward, in the 1990s, fact-checking became a lot more common.
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How do you go about fact-checking and citing source material?
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Protecting the EU Elections From Misinformation and Expanding Our Fact-Checking Program to New Languages Facebook is bringing fact-checking to more countries and more languages: Today we're announcing the expansion of this program in the EU with five new local fact-checking partners: Ellinika Hoaxes in Greece, FactCheckNI in Northern Ireland, Faktograf in Croatia, Observador in Portugal and Patikrinta 15min in Lithuania.
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Speaking of fact-checking Fox News' chief news anchor Shepard Smith spent a portion of his program fact-checking some of the fear-mongering that has been peddled by his own colleagues on his own network.
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" In a statement, the news organization said that it "constantly evaluates how to best deploy its fact-checking resources, and that includes ongoing conversations with Facebook about opportunities to do important fact-checking work on its platform.
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"The irony is, it's the people who didn't have a culture of fact-checking who are the ones fact-checking her work," Kyle Pope, the editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, said in an interview.
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" Be smart: The WashPost called the Cabinet meeting "a fact-checking nightmare.
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These are countries where Facebook already has fact checking partnerships in place.
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Now it's time for Facebook to take fact-checking more seriously, too.
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When voters cry foul at fact-checking, it's a weird time indeed.
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Looking forward to your (belated) fact checking as relates to me. Thanks!
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In place of that crowdsourced fact-checking, what have you turned to?
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Researchers separated truth from rumor with six independent fact checking organizations: snopes.
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I realize that fact-checking Donald Trump is a pretty futile effort.
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Facebook has a new fact-checking partner, Axios first reported Thursday: CheckYourFact.
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Fact-checking Trump is vitally important, but it doesn't go far enough.
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But then we remember that we're fact checking Sanders, not the statisticians.
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Politifact, another fact-checking website, gave it a "Pants on Fire" rating.
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But he has acquired a reputation for bluster rather than fact-checking.
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The latter policy idea is sounds reminiscent of Facebook's fact-checking program.
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A Facebook spokeswoman told Reuters that fact-checking partners receive quarterly reports.
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Then they ducked into a windowless fact-checking library and dialled Bazdarich.
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One of the apparent advantages of online news is persistent fact-checking.
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"I've got the detectives fact checking everything he's given us," Cox said.
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Facebook has a similar fact-checking partnership with Wikipedia and other organizations.
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Each project must undergo editorial review, including fact-checking, before we publish.
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The example also shows the judgment calls made by fact-checking organizations.
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The horror comes after the fact, checking for wounds, assessing the damage.
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Snopes has done the thankless work of online fact-checking since 1995.
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Cristina Tardáguila is the director of Agência Lupa, a fact-checking platform.
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Fact-checking site Snopes even took the time to debunk the hoax.
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There is some research that points to the utility of fact-checking.
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Turkey barely has a democracy, but it has a fact-checking site.
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The Pirbright Institute issued a statement shared by fact-checking organization FactCheck.
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Some of Facebook's toughest critics, though, question the fact-checking operation itself.
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From the get-go, fact-checking was part of their Twitter strategy.
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For the former journalist, fact-checking publically is a matter of efficiency.
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"Fact-checking becomes an act of war by the media," he said.
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Some characterized the fact-checking as an extension of their journalistic efforts.
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One group that's exempt from the fact checking, though, is politicians. 7.
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What you're describing just seems like basic fact-checking to expose hypocrisy.
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What was your end of the agreement in terms of fact-checking?
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TG: What advice would you give for fact-checking the 2016 election?
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The CNN chyron has started fact-checking his claims in real time.
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I wrote about book publishing's fact-checking problem for Vox in 2018.
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When it comes to fact-checking, book publishing hasn't gotten there yet.
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It's also possible that YouTubers avoid fact checking trigger words by accident.
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Israel Election: Meet The People Fact-Checking The Election That Makes 21 Look Like A Walk In The Park Israel votes tomorrow, but the only fact-checking group working with Facebook got started just days Megha Rajagopalan reports.
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"Today, we're expanding fact-checking for photos and videos to all of our 85033 partners in 17 countries around the world (and are regularly on-boarding new fact-checking partners)," product manager Antonia Woodford said in a statement.
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On the other hand, the rise of online fact-checking may have also made peoples' lies more visible, said Bill Adair, the founder of the Pulitzer Prize–winning fact-checking website PolitiFact and journalism professor at Duke University.
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The threats come just as Facebook announced new tools to fight the spread of fake news, including an option for users to flag fake news and third-party fact-checking with help from the Poynter International Fact Checking Network.
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Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, announced today it is mobilizing and expanding its fact-checking unit to fight misinformation on social media by expanding its partnership with Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program in the United Kingdom.
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Now he's joining CNN in the DC bureau as a fact-checking reporter.
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How do you reconcile those critiques with the case for live fact-checking?
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TG: From a fact-checking perspective, what makes Trump different from other candidates?
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Elizabeth Warren, about whether Facebook ought to exempt political ads from fact-checking.
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Super lazy fact-checking, where they could have spent 30 seconds on Google.
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Several news sites boasted about extra efforts dedicated to fact checking the debate.
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More media organizations than ever before are engaged in fact-checking and debunking.
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But fact-checking can sometimes take up to three days, according to Facebook.
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The vast majority of that fact-checking Thursday night was aimed at Trump.
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And we're also working with organizations that are in the fact-checking space.
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The Third Party Fact Checking programme should expand to fully include Instagram content.
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It's an expanding consortium of publishers known as International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
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But the media response to Trump's dishonesty shows the limits of fact-checking.
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"The election made me value fact-checking and things I can rely on."
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The new fact checking goes one step further than the previous source tags.
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Luckily, we have Amoruso's own account in her memoir, #Girlboss, for fact-checking.
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Third-party fact-checkers must agree to a fact-checking code of ethics.
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Stahl told the crowd she sees no problem with reporters fact-checking candidates.
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" The rumor fact-checking website Snopes said that the post's claims were "unproven.
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French fact-checking groups, who are mostly embedded in mainstream media, fared better.
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Photo fact checking could help Facebook prevent the false image from going viral.
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We spent another almost a year fact-checking and researching, working it out.
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Also, where would the fact-checking end on Facebook if it were started?
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The fact-checking site Snopes has debunked the claim entirely, citing "zero evidence."
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Unfortunately, Abramson specifically charges new digital media with a neglect of fact-checking.
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However, other research we have done suggests that fact-checking can be effective.
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As a journalistic tool, fact-checking has been on the rise for years.
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Fact-checking tools for teens and tweens Conversation starters What is hate speech?
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It has also enlisted humans, including fact-checking editors and its own users.
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People are going to be delusional but trustworthy, so do your fact-checking.
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Mafindo's head of fact-checking, Aribowo Sasmito, compares it to the drug trade.
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Nearly half of Democrats (43%) say they use a fact-checking website (e.g.
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According to Mr. Schachter, Mr. Philbrick made nothing easy, including the fact-checking.
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Once an item clears that bar, it's time for editing and fact-checking.
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Undoubtedly Trump has ushered in a new era of fact-checking in journalism.
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Este artículo fue producido por la unidad de fact-checking (verificación) de Reuters.
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Have you seen any of these fake news reports on fact-checking sites?
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CNN's political and issues teams will be covering it and fact-checking it.
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Media often report on fake news; fact-checking often falls by the wayside.
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It is also reportedly considering exempting opinion and satire pieces from fact-checking.
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The Justice Department also imposed changes, including strengthening fact-checking for draft applications.
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"Most of the proposals are related to debunking and fact checking," says Quattrociocchi.
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It leaves the task (and expense) of fact-checking entirely to its authors.
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" The account's bio stated that it would be "Fact checking Labour from CCHQ.
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A team of doctors working with fact-checking group Health Feedback on Aug.
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Pro-journalism groups use the day after April Fool's to promote fact-checking.
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The goal, according to Facebook, is to speed up the fact-checking process.
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Check. Is leveraging that position to stop Facebook from fact-checking political ads?
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"[Fact-checking] is crucial as a journalism tool, especially in politics," she said.
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Facebook's fact-checking operation is working with 21 partners in 14 European languages.
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It's a culture of lying that you have to constantly be fact-checking.
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Why isn't fact-checking enough to convince people to abandon inaccurate political beliefs?
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Putting aside questions about the consistency of their methods, does fact-checking work?
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You guys have rolled out a ton of stuff since December 2016: You've rolled out the fact-checking initiative, you've shrunk images on suspect posts, you've rolled out machine language tools for fact-checking, and machine language tools for clickbait headlines.
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"Our professional fact-checking partners are an important piece of our strategy against misinformation, but they face challenges of scale: There simply aren't enough professional fact-checkers worldwide and, like all good journalism, fact-checking takes time," the blog post reads.
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More fact-checking on CNN's Facts First page Here's a breakdown of Trump's comments.
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Fact-checking works, if done properly, and it needs the support of tech companies.
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The team at Babe spent a week reporting, writing, and fact-checking Grace's story.
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After a fellowship at PolitiFact, I opened a fact-checking unit in Lithuania, 15min.lt.
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The deciders are Snopes and other fact-checking groups -- ABC News, Politifact and FactCheck.
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Facebook currently has these fact-checking partnerships in six countries, with plans to expand.
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Did you know there is actually an International Fact-Checking Network (which Mantzarlis leads)?
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Writers could write anything they wanted because there was no way of fact checking.
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It was also flagged by a Twitter user who tagged Correctiv's fact-checking account.
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Facebook last year outsourced fact-checking to five partners: ABC News, Associated Press, FactCheck.
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Rakocz thought he could make a bigger impact by fact-checking politicians' statements directly.
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TG: How do you measure the impact of fact-checking in cases like Trump's?
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LG: There are three different ideas for how fact-checking might make a difference.
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"It's pretty standard stuff," said Maarten Schenk, who runs the fact-checking website leadstories.com.
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Facebook, in fact, just enlisted a handful of fact-checking sites to flag hoaxes.
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The company uses third-party fact-checking organizations to flag stories that are false.
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Hanson polled his audience about YouTube's fact-checking, and the result was largely positive.
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Chequeado, Latin America's first fact-checking site, embarrasses both the left and the right.
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The tech executive has repeatedly defended Facebook's lack of fact-checking on political ads.
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Many fact-checking sites like Snopes, Lead Stories, and BuzzFeed News debunked the story.
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In our (almost) post-fact world, we've come dangerously close to post-fact-checking.
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There was no fact checking from him or his publisher — it almost feels deliberate.
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The networks aren't fact-checking the debates because they don't want to seem biased.
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Just fact-checking the outlandish stories about Crews's behavior must have been daunting work.
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And that's why we work with over 50 fact-checking organizations around the world.
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The Weekly Standard was recently reported to be participating in Facebook's fact-checking program.
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Like... ProPublica tweeted multiple previous reports as examples of its fact-checking the Trump. .
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Fact-checking website Snopes announced that it would not renew its partnership with Facebook.
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Fact-checking websites like Snopes or PolitiFact are failing to reach fake news readers.
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We now know Snapchat's position in the great online political advertising fact-checking debate.
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But fact-checking loomed over the debate even when Mr. Holt wasn't doing it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's turn to question Zuckerberg about the fact-checking of political advertisements.
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We demand fact-checking backed up by rapid-response corrections when mistakes are made.
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Those flagged posts will be reviewed by Instagram's newly-established pilot fact-checking program.
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The social media giant has outsourced fact-checking to five outlets: Associated Press, Factcheck.
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The company recently expanded fact-checking resources to more countries ahead of global elections.
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Those flagged posts will be reviewed by Instagram's newly established pilot fact-checking program.
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You were... CLINTON: At some point, we need to do some fact-checking here.
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That's when I got interested in fact-checking the myth of Helen Gurley Brown.
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Not even Ocasio-Cortez can get away with decrying the practice of fact-checking.
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In March, Facebook said it's beginning to test fact-checking of photos and videos.
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Fact-checking is a test of character for both sides, an experiment in generosity.
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Facebook wanted responsible fact-checking organizations to partner with, and several such organizations exist.
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False: The for-profit fact-checking website has no choice but to shut down.
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These institutions functioned like referees, calling out lies, fact-checking claims, and so on.
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Edited or clipped videos will continue to be subject to our fact-checking program.
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Whether videos are deepfakes or not, they're all subject to Facebook's fact-checking system.
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Just look at what CNN is doing with its use of fact-checking chyrons.
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Facebook is now operating without a third-party fact-checking service in the Netherlands.
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If the ad ran again, she said, it would be submitted to fact-checking.
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On one side is Snopes, the influential fact-checking website founded 25 years ago.
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Facebook says it's working with fact-checking partners to debunk some of the claims.
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Fact-checking can help set the record straight on the challengers' more dubious assertions.
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That content was rated "pants on fire" by Politifact, a Facebook fact-checking partner.
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Articles that receive enough flags will be sent to third-party fact-checking organizations.
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Less click-driven, fact checking columns; more internal ombudsmen Politicians should be held accountable.
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Fact-checking website PolitiFact on Thursday announced that it had hired former Florida Reps.
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" — COLBERT "It's basically two days of speeches followed by 19 days of fact-checking.
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His live fact-checking of Trump's rallies and interviews keeps me glued to Twitter.
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Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, has aired "fact-checking" segments on his program.
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On one side is Snopes, the influential fact-checking website founded 25 years ago.
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It's the same problem with YouTube's Wikipedia fact-checking program to combat conspiracy theories.
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On Tuesday, the social network announced a partnership with Boom, an independent, Mumbai-based fact-checking organization that's certified by the International Fact-Checking Network, to run a pilot project for the Indian state of Karnataka, which goes to polls on May 12.
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The social network will begin fact-checking and flagging fake news for users in Germany over the coming weeks, according to the FT. The tools were first launched in the US last month, as part of a partnership with independent fact-checking organizations.
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The delay to remove the video, which CNN reported was 32 hours, was attributable to the fact that Facebook outsources its fact-checking process to a network of third-party fact-checking partners, and they needed time to inspect the video themselves.
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Once Facebook confirmed that fact-checkers deemed the video "false," it began "dramatically reducing" the video's distribution and added a fact-checking prompt to a screen before the video is shared that shows a list of fact-checking articles about the video.
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Google's plan is to use this partnership to help increase the number of verified fact checkers, expand the concept of fact checking to more regions by translating the IFCN's code of principles, and to provide fact-checking tools to the IFCN community.
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It's a significant expansion of Instagram's fact-checking program, which up until now has only partnered with third-party organizations within the U.S. Instagram now works with 45 different fact-checking organizations around the world to identify false information within the app.
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Journalists, who've expended a million hours fact-checking Trump, are wasting their time and yours.
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Facebook works with independent fact-checking organizations to identify misleading content and flag it accordingly.
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Facebook first announced the fact-checking partners in 2016 and at the time identified FactCheck.
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It will also populate a list of fact-checking articles that debunk the phony reports.
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Mercury retrograde is an excellent time for you to work on your fact checking skills.
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He doesn't lay out his claims, so that makes fact-checking him a special challenge.
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What a fantastic year for fact-checking and rational thought and Mark Zuckerberg's self-awareness.
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A user on the fact-checking site Snopes questioned the legitimacy of the alleged proverb.
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Facebook is identifying these pages using the stories declared false by its fact checking partners.
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A fact-checking program implemented on the site also didn't go far enough, Carusone believes.
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Wardle has overseen fact-checking projects with a focus on WhatsApp in India and Brazil.
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In any case, fact-checking is expensive — far too expensive for the Club Treasurer's tastes!!
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In April, Facebook announced that it would start fact-checking for fake news in India.
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Following Google's lead earlier this year, Bing has added fact checking tags to search results.
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Verrit doesn't say who's doing the fact checking or how it chooses and verifies information.
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However, post-debate, four fact-checking sites had him telling far more falsehoods than Clinton.
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One important type of public annotation that students should be aware of is fact-checking.
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We are simulating a social network to study this competition between sharing and fact-checking.
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Facebook also has fact-checking programs in countries including the Philippines, France, Indonesia, and Italy.
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Facebook has come under fire for working with certain fact-checking partners in the past.
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The company has also partnered with fact-checking organizations, working to prevent hoaxes from spreading.
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At the time, the company said it had 35 fact-checking partners around the world.
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Griswold did post a list of sites Google failed to provide fact-checking modules for.
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" She calls the outlet "the real bullies for not fact-checking before slandering my name.
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It should be clear that only the first contention is amenable to straightforward fact-checking.
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A company representative said political groups like PACs were subject to fact-checking as well.
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Fact-checking the warped musings of a deranged, white supremacist killer has lots of drawbacks.
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Ocasio-Cortez and the Post fact-checking unit have traded criticism in the recent past.
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Clinton; thanks to nonpartisan fact-checking operations like PolitiFact, we can even quantify the difference.
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Well, I just want to say... RADDATZ: There's been lots of fact-checking on that.
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It's one thing to hear America singing; it's quite another to hear it fact-checking.
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The White House released videos "fact-checking" the CBO's reports with its own rosier projections.
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Last month, they announced a fact-checking initiative with the likes of AP and Politifact.
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To do this, Facebook has partnered with dozens of fact-checking organizations around the world.
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And while Twitter isn't fact-checking, the misinformation about coronavirus isn't restricted to New York.
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The available data on the effectiveness of fact-checking, especially on social media, is mixed.
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CNN's Daniel Dale and Tara Subramaniam have done incredible work fact checking his individual statements.
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That means Trump can spread media content that fact-checking independent journalists would never publish.
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The debate ended in November when The Daily Caller's fact-checking operation lost its accreditation.
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It would be hard to complain if Facebook partnered with reputable websites for fact-checking.
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Fact-checking is a rococo practice whose original object was simply shielding publications from liability.
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It's the we that we protect while fact-checking, not some ideal of pure truth.
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That said, PDFs make fact-checking far easier and speed our process for embargoed books.
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Fact-checking is grueling work, but it is also the core of what we do.
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Why do Trump's supporters continue to believe misinformation, even in the face of fact-checking?
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Ms. Lane declined to comment for this article or to participate in fact-checking it.
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He believes his fact-checking attempts have been flagged on trolling forums, such as 4chan.
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Top Democrats have slammed Facebook for not fact-checking claims made by politicians in ads.
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But Democrats should know by now that fact checking this President alone does not suffice.
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Ads from politicians are also not subject to the platform's third-party fact-checking program.
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Early on in the development of the site, Evans and Kassen fought over fact-checking.
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And I'm wondering: Are the networks and their fact-checking teams up to the task?
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This will make it easier for Facebook's fact-checking partners to quickly debunk false claims.
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PolitiFact, the independent fact-checking website, found four polls that somewhat fit Mr. Trump's description.
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Facebook and YouTube (among other platforms) already provide fact-checking recommendations for potentially misleading content.
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But Facebook had said that any other political ads could be submitted to fact-checking.
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In October, Facebook made the controversial decision to exempt most political ads from fact-checking.
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Reuters will have two fact-checking staffers in Washington D.C. and two in Mexico City.
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Increasingly, those agencies also have fact-checking sections on their websites, aimed at combating misinformation.
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" Alex Pareene explores how political fact-checking went off the rails in "The Pinocchio Syndrome.
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First, people ragged on me for not "fact-checking" all of the claims Caroline made.
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Daou acknowledges that Verrit should have stuck to fact-checking instead of defending Clinton's legacy.
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As I mentioned earlier, Dale's specialty is in fact-checking Trump's various (and many) lies.
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As of Sunday Quantcast ranked its traffic above that of the fact-checking site Politifact.com.
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The total may well grow once we have time to do some deeper fact-checking.
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That last move comes despite rising controversy over Facebook's policy against fact-checking political ads.
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After days of editing and fact-checking, she said the story was ready to run.
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Tara Golshan: From a fact-checking perspective, what makes Donald Trump different from other candidates?
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So what if you get to the point where it's not fact-checking they want?
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That aversion to fact-checking isn't just a problem for Trump supporters — it affects everyone.
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At the Atlantic, Robinson Meyer asked Brooke Binkowski, the head of fact-checking website Snopes.
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Others, primarily from right-wing groups, question whether Facebook's fact-checking sources are accurate themselves.
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In a blog post from product manager Tessa Lyons, Facebook announced a series of new partnerships and expansions to its fact-checking endeavors, including fact-checking viral photos and images and the use of machine learning to stop the spread of hoaxes and fake news.
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Social media companies need to invest far more heavily in fact-checking; right now leading fact-checking services that partner with Facebook work just eight hours a day, five days a week, a woefully inadequate approach our viral, 24/7 split-second global news cycle.
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Much like Facebook, Google is calling on fact-checking organizations to help it bust fake news.
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Finally, there is still the controversial question of who is responsible for doing the fact-checking.
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Still, the idea of building in a fact-checking program at the browser level is troubling.
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Only Trump could make promises so grandiose that they exceeded the very boundaries of fact-checking.
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The social media company has paired with a number of fact-checking organizations including Politifact, FactCheck.
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Facebook has stepped up its fact-checking program and is toughening up policies for political advertisements.
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Facebook relies on user reports and outside fact-checking organizations to flag/identify disputed/dubious content.
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" Media analyst Clay Shirky has said fact-checking itself has become part of the "culture war.
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Facebook says its third-party fact-checkers are certified by the impartial International Fact-Checking Network.
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Snopes will no longer partner with Facebook as part of the social network's fact-checking initiative.
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Facebook will expand its fact-checking operation to vet photos and videos, the company announced Thursday.
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Fact-checking review processes take time to ensure no authentic, standard-bearing content is unnecessarily removed.
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It doesn't help that the fact-checking journalists themselves didn't think the program was very effective.
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It also partnered with a third-party fact-checking service and hired a content moderation team.
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While Snopes once had a fact-checking partnership with Facebook, that arrangement ended back in February.
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Still, Americans have been fact-checking for longer than Europeans, and have hardly defeated fake news.
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We kept fact checking the number every new time he said it; it kept being wrong.
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Fact-checking Trump and other 2020 candidates' ads would not significantly impact the company's bottom line.
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On Saturday, Mercury will move backwards through Scorpio, putting us all in a fact-checking mood.
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YouTube rolled out its fact-checking feature in 2018 in an attempt to help tackle misinformation.
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He will suffer from the fact checking tomorrow, but most Americans may not notice or care.
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Facebook is adding Lead Stories as a new fact-checking partner, the company will announce today.
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No matter what PolitiFact and other fact-checking organizations do, they're likely to make someone unhappy.
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"There was no fact checking from him or his publisher — it almost feels deliberate," she said.
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Simultaneously, AI solutions will become increasingly essential for fact-checking and in detecting content manipulation, e.g.
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It's been six months since fact-checking got real on Facebook in the UK. In Jan.
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CNN has taken to fact-checking Trump in the text at the bottom of the screen.
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Facebook's fact-checking efforts have not been universally well-received since they started in late 2016.
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And unlike fact-checking organizations in the U.S., Full Fact doesn't stop after publishing its findings.
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This includes content that has been found to be false news by independent fact-checking organizations.
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Snopes (bless them) went to even more trouble fact-checking Neon Nettle's extremely sloppy fake sleuthing.
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However, the announcement comes days after two of Facebook's highest-profile fact-checking partnerships fell apart.
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Meanwhile, the effect of the fact-checking program was poorly communicated both to partners and users.
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Facebook said Thursday it is planning to expand its fact-checking functions to photos and videos.
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Couric took the opportunity to question Sandberg on Facebook's policy of not fact-checking political ads.
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"Posts and ads from politicians are generally not subjected to fact-checking," according to Facebook's policy.
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Earlier this month Facebook confirmed that paid political ads are ineligible for third-party fact-checking.
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It was accepted because Facebook does not submit ads from politicians for third-party fact checking.
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A group in Manaus is fact-checking news and information in the Amazon region of Brazil.
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" Roughly one-third (30%) believe such information is shared due to laziness or "poor fact-checking.
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This election season is providing loads of material for teaching word choice, persuasion, and fact checking.
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What's been inconsistent is the level of fact-checking and investigation brought to each party's story.
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Facebook in February announced an expansion of its fact-checking company partners to seven, from two.
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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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They've done that sort of real time fact checking on websites and that sort of thing.
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They've done that sort of real time fact checking on websites and that sort of thing.
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But as a general rule, presidential debate moderators don't think fact-checking candidates is their job.
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By not fact-checking political ads, Facebook is essentially allowing politicians to lie on its platform.
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Meanwhile: One of Facebook's fact-checking partners has proposed a potential solution for the company's dilemma.
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Sinha also said YouTube's current fact-checking strategy doesn't reflect how Indians actually use the site.
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Gone would be the reels of critics fact-checking his statements or arguing against his policies.
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It can be important to do a little bit of fact-checking right off the bat.
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Reuters joins the list of US fact-checking partners that include The Associated Press, PolitiFact, Factcheck.
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This post has been updated with additional information from Facebook concerning the company's fact-checking program.
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The company has argued that fact checking political ads could interfere with free speech in politics.
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They brazenly rebranded their Twitter account as a fact-checking site during a crucial political debate.
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Scholarly peer review is not the same as the fact-checking that magazine journalism goes through.
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In addition, Facebook reiterated its existing policy that exempts politicians' speech from its fact-checking program.
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Multiple fact-checking websites have ruled the claim that Clinton started the birther controversy as false.
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They've limited message forwarding, banned fake accounts, labeled political advertising and partnered with fact-checking websites.
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The Associated Press is expanding the work it does for Facebook's independent fact-checking program, too.
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"We will not be sending politicians' content to our third-party fact checking partners," Elin said.
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Washington (CNN)It is not fun trying to catch up on fact checking President Donald Trump.
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"They're trying to float anything they can find out there to discredit fact-checking," he said.
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The aim of the new contractors is to make the process of fact-checking much faster.
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And the complaints and aggressive fact-checking by the news media played right into his hands.
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I'm a war hero,' that would be in the politician's voice and ineligible for fact-checking.
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One Indian fact-checking website told Vice it was unable to detect the videos were fake.
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I hate to interrupt you but at some point we needed to do some fact checking.
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But all that fact-checking hasn't stopped many Trump supporters from believing misinformation to be true.
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Greenfield also told his followers not to trust respected fact-checking website Snopes on the matter.
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"Most political ads are highly partisan, and fact-checking, part of the place I think you want to get to is find a way to do some sort of fact checking on these that's not so partisan," Cox said at the Wired 25 conference in San Francisco.
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The third-party sites Facebook is now using to assess articles shared on the platform are all part of Poynter's fact-checking network, and include the urban legend-debunking–turned–fact-checking site Snopes as well as news organizations like ABC News and the Associated Press.
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Mikkelson wants to increase the Snopes' offerings to include original videos, podcasts and real-time fact checking.
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The term "fake news" has become so politically charged that simple fact-checking is met with suspicion.
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TG: What are some of the specific benefits of real-time fact-checking in debates or interviews?
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That goes hand-in-hand with an existing policy that keeps Facebook from fact-checking politicians' speech.
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Not that politicians have to worry about fact-checking — at least when it comes to their ads.
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It encouraged Facebook to "at a minimum" reinstate fact-checking for organic and paid content by politicians.
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It also gives the fact-checking partners the first tangible sense of the impact of their work.
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And finally, share more data with the public and with researchers on the effectiveness of fact-checking.
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Since then, Ms. Heifetz, 59, has been fact-checking his third novel, which will be published posthumously.
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Fact-checking Trump Trump says the whistleblower has been discredited, but the facts tell a different story.
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Fact-checking those ads would slow down Facebook's approval process, potentially resulting in a lower ad-spend.
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Part of Chequeado's revenue comes from offering training courses in fact-checking to newsrooms across Latin America.
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Facebook specifically has been widely criticized for its policy of not fact-checking ads run by politicians.
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But is FB fact-checking and potentially blocking posts from politicians, even the president, the best solution?
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The two organizations discussing their partnerships with Facebook tend to be older, more mature fact-checking operations.
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"God bless you for fact-checking even if you did it when we were on the air."
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The Columbia Journalism Review published a report back in April that looked at Facebook's fact-checking efforts.
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BAIER: Just fact-checking here, A.B., a lot of different places say Republicans funded this at first.
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But she changed her story Wednesday in a lengthy exchange that amounted to a live fact-checking.
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Breitbart fans aren't exactly going to go to progressive Slate and download their hottest fact-checking tool.
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That service arrives amid a pre-debate debate regarding the moderator's role in fact-checking candidate statements.
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A fact-checking site called Chequeado compiled some of the misinformation that was distributed on the platform.
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It was the early days of BOOM's fact-checking efforts, and reporters were learning on the fly.
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His revisionist history appeals to these people precisely because it flatters them and doesn't demand fact-checking.
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Part of being a publisher is reviewing, editing, and fact-checking every book that crosses their table.
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But Gerbic's team just as often finds itself fact-checking dubious claims from their family and friends.
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The Daily Caller publishes a fraction of that, so its fact-checking ratio likely triggered the widget.
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The company exempts politicians' ads from fact-checking standards applied to other content on the social network.
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In at least some cases, accusations of dishonest fact-checking have been based on highly tendentious interpretation.
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Look, my human coworkers used to kind of take care of that fact checking stuff for me.
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Facebook has faced reports of using its relationship with fact-checking organizations as an exploitative PR play.
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The news came courtesy of the journalism nonprofit Poynter, which has fact-checking efforts of its own.
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PST Facebook sent Mashable the following statement regarding the end of its fact-checking partnership with Snopes.
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They can use online fact-checking tools to discover the truth (or at least uncover the fraud).
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But it also examines the role of social media and whether fact checking reaches its intended readers.
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If Google News can introduce a nonpartisan fact-checking feature then surely Facebook could do the same.
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Do you see a potential problem here, with a complete lack of fact-checking for political advertisements?
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The social network exempts political ads from fact-checking — a position that has enraged the company's critics.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who grilled Zuckerberg about Facebook's policies regarding fact-checking political advertisements and news outlets.
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The study also found broad support for political fact-checking — or at least the concept of it.
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CLINTON: ... I told people that it would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald all the time.
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James Poniewozik Before the first Clinton-Trump debate, we were all at Defcon 1 over fact-checking.
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The story "oversimplifies and distorts what the New York law allows," according to the fact-checking organization.
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" She also revealed, "There was no fact checking from him or his publisher—it almost feels deliberate.
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But the concept is that they had some issues with Condé Nast because of fact-checking. Yeah.
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Connecting this data with existing fact-checking efforts could help understand and mitigate harmful information going viral.
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To say that Trump has challenged the business of fact-checking is a bit of an understatement.
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Stories marked as disputed may be subject to fact-checking by organizations such as Politifact or Snopes.
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In contrast, Dylan Farrow pointed out, her own claims have been subject to extensive journalistic fact-checking.
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Facebook, by partnering with a right-wing fact-checking organization, is making a concession to conservative arguments.
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Soon after, Facebook eliminated the entire trending team and with it, a crucial layer of fact checking.
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Hemmer and Faulkner were widely criticized for letting Trump repeat falsehoods without fact-checking or follow-ups.
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This is an understandable reaction to the unending swirl of controversies over fact-checking, fairness and disclosure.
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But conspiracy theories don't announce themselves, and machines can't yet handle the complicated business of fact-checking.
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The company announced a $1 million donation on Wednesday to the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network.
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His fact-checking document bloomed into a breathless 90-page chronicle of the essay's every last inaccuracy.
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"Posts and ads from politicians are generally not subjected to fact-checking," according to Facebook&aposs policy.
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A fact-checking component will also be a part of this system, led by Twitter's curation team.
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Our reporters are following all of the exchanges and fact-checking the candidates, providing context and explanation.
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Should we try to mitigate its effects through fact-checking campaigns only, despite their somewhat limited impact?
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CNN's Tal Kopan has done some very good work fact checking him on immigration and US laws.
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While the statement isn't true, Facebook's own policy exempts ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking.
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We also have a fact-checking process for the site, led by our science and research team.
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The focus was on fact-checking information about a draft, rather than explaining the US-Iran conflict.
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Facebook's fact-checking rules do not apply to political ads, letting candidates spread false or misleading claims.
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Some uneasiness appears to have crept into the larger relationship between Facebook and the fact-checking community.
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Even knowing what types of headlines work best for fact-checking posts would be valuable, Mantzarlis said.
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PolitiFact, one of the fact-checking sites Google is relying on, rated that claim as Mostly True.
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Snopes, the fact-checking website, does not have an office designed to impress, or even be noticed.
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News outlets need to adjust how they cover the president and this administration beyond merely fact-checking.
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Inaccurate information that does not violate the policy will still be eligible for fact-checking, Facebook said.
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Fact-checking websites ascertain the veracity of false stories once they are already pervasive and widely disseminated.
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It also works with fact-checking organizations, including in Germany, to debunk false information on the platform.
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Equally problematic is Mr. Trump's challenged relationship with veracity, documented almost daily by independent fact-checking organizations.
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Every year since then, you see an increase in the amount of fact-checking from professional journalists.
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TG: Earlier this campaign season, you argued for real-time fact-checking during televised interviews or debates.
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McKesson confirmed to fact-checking site Snopes that his account was hacked and the correspondence was fabricated.
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He writes about the company's indifference to fact-checking efforts that other social platforms have embraced: While there's ample reason to doubt that Facebook and Google's efforts are working, Twitter doesn't even have any comparable programs, aside from aiding a collaborative fact-checking project during the recent Mexican elections.
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Last time at the first debate, we had millions of people fact checking, so I expect we'll have millions more fact checking, because, you know, it is — it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
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But fact-checking itself can be an inherently controversial and "risky" form of journalism, as Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the book Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, told me earlier this summer.
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The point of fact-checking and the journalistic exercise is not that the person who lies less wins.
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The two services have also set up a fact-checking unit to correct Russian official statements, called Polygraph.
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The big event starts at 9pm ET, and WIRED will be covering it—and fact-checking it—live.
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Because even though there were more fakes than ever, people simply became numb to the constant fact-checking.
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Here's some good news: It's possible to use fact-checking to nudge people to believe in the truth.
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There was the usual litany of gross exaggerations and outright falsehoods to keep the fact-checking machines whirring.
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Fact-checking websites, including PolitiFact and Snopes, have labeled claims about Sharia law coming to the U.S. false.
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In December the company announced that, for the first time, it would introduce fact-checking onto the platform.
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It's why reporters doubled down on fact-checking and calling attention to countless falsehoods coming from Trump rallies.
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Publications like Libération and Le Monde have launched fact-checking tools to counter rising fears of "fake news".
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Facebook's fact-checking unit is outsourced to the Weekly Standard's Fact-Checker and his four nonpartisan peer outlets.
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Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods or at least warn users.
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If you're not fact-checking political advertisements, I'm trying to understand the bounds here of what's fair game.
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" A.O.C.: "Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?
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Libération then published a piece on its fact-checking vertical investigating the size and influence of the group.
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Still, Calacanis, who was last tagged by Gawker in 2014, called for better fact-checking at the site.
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All of those arguments will inevitably draw scrutiny and fact-checking from the media and rebuttal from Democrats.
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Facebook works with fact-checking organizations like Snopes and PolitiFact, which look into stories and determine their veracity.
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Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper tried, but fact checking Trump doesn't work because Trump doesn't care about facts.
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Fact checking the debate Before the debate began, moderator Lester Holt referenced the millions of viewers watching worldwide.
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These countries were chosen to get the roll out first because Facebook has established fact checking partnerships there.
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During the debate, she urged viewers to visit her website, where staff would be fact-checking Trump's comments.
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Nowhere else can the powerless push up against the powerful, fact-checking and myth-busting in real time.
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Fact-checking the DNC speeches from Day 0003 As for costs, Americans are paying more for many things.
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And fact-checking is a vocation that often finds itself mired in petty word-based disputes like this.
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If enough people report a story as false, someone on a fact-checking team will look into it.
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The company additionally announced the expansion of its program for fact-checking photos and video to four countries.
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But Mr Trump is so prone to this kind of thing that fact-checking may miss the point.
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My best advice for the public is for everyone to do a little fact-checking of their own.
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You'll also be able to fact-check the content based on Google's own partnerships with fact-checking organizations.
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Many posted heartfelt messages of support for the website, which has been fact-checking online rumors since 1995.
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"The problem though in this current atmosphere, fact checking has become a branch of opinion journalism," he said.
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Facebook launched the program in December 2016 and now has 54 fact-checking partners working in 42 languages.
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"Student interns provide invaluable help with research projects, day-to-day operations, and fact-checking," the report stated.
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My extensive fact-checking before submitting the puzzle (the Wikipedia article on heavy metals) had led me astray!
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He declined to identify the specific tools, such as computer virus databases or popular fact-checking website Snopes.
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But until then, it appears that Facebook users will have to do their own fact-checking on Messenger.
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Below I've picked out the most notable lines from Trump -- and added some context and fact checking. 1.
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She's also meticulous about fact-checking and properly citing her sources to ensure the page meets Wikipedia's standards.
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Schrader said he thinks Facebook should operate like a traditional newsroom, with checks and balances and fact-checking.
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And fact-checking and Trump are not a good combination -- at least if you care about the truth.
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With all these obstacles, it would be easy to ask whether fact-checking is worth it at all.
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Respondents pointed to increased transparency from the media and more fact checking resources as essential in restoring confidence.
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My interviews with Trump were journeys into unreality that required extensive fact-checking of every claim he made.
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All this said, I have to add that I don't know if more fact-checking would have mattered.
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" Likewise, Bob Schieffer of CBS tells me: "I'm not sure more fact-checking would have changed that much.
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The Times does not make a practice of fact-checking reader comments, which would be an overwhelming task.
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Google is also supporting 10 other projects across Europe focused on fact checking through the Digital Initiative Fund.
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Without fact-checking, I'm pretty confident in calling Parkey and Gabehart the biggest Dolly Parton fans on earth.
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Yet inherent in the mainstream media's fact-checking is a sense that they need to even the score.
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This means fact-checking specific claims but also not reducing every debate to whether something is technically true.
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One activist group focused on fact-checking, listing every time they found evidence to contradict the company line.
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Facebook announced on Thursday that it would expand a fact-checking program to its Instagram image-sharing service.
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The IFCN was set up in 2015 to help establish best practices in the field of fact-checking.
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I'm grateful to the editors for their careful fact-checking, which put them squarely on my spouse's side.
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Currently, Facebook asks independent fact-checking organizations from across the political spectrum to identify false and misleading information.
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They don't want fact-checking, and they don't want to hear that the source they follow is unreliable.
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Within 21 hours, one of Facebook Inc's fact-checking partners in India, BOOM, exposed Dandiya's video as fake.
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And Gossip Cop, for its part, would not speak of its plans for the future of fact-checking.
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And of course, oftentimes the role of fact-checking Trump can give the impression that journalists are biased.
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The idea of more effective fact-checking has come up often in the debates around India's disinformation contagion.
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Facebook India has a small 11- to 22-member fact-checking team for content related to Indian elections.
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"Fact-checking needs to be there to stop the little lies before they become big lies," Reifler added.
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Maybe there were better ways to counter our fears than endless rumor-mongering and fact-checking on WhatsApp.
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The former managing editor from the fact-checking site Snopes first noticed the logo and researched its origins.
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During the pandemic, he says that fact checking organizations have seen a spike in submissions about WhatsApp misinformation.
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Since last year, Google also has funded almost 20 European projects aimed at fact-checking potentially false reports.
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Warren has already taken Facebook to task for being too big and for not fact-checking political ads.
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Critics are worried that Facebook's fact-checking partners aren't getting the resources they need to adequately address misinformation.
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He occasionally devoted time in his newscasts to fact-checking statements from Trump and officials in his administration.
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The plan is for Facebook to send questionable links to a coalition of fact-checking sites, including Snopes.
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On Twitter, Fernandes did not directly address the accusations but complained about media who reported without fact-checking.
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As Clegg noted, Facebook already stated last year that it won't send politicians' claims to fact-checking organizations.
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On Tuesday night, CNN's Chris Cuomo hosted a fact-checking segment with Daniel Dale of The Toronto Star.
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But the Poltifact fact-checking website puts the total amount of NRA spending since 1998 at $203 million.
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The photo-sharing app will now start fact-checking posts outside of the United States, the company announced.
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The contracted workers are called "community reviews," and will bolster the efforts of Facebook&aposs fact-checking partners.
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And if fact [checking] is anything, we've never had anybody with the level of mendacity that he has.
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Questions also have been raised over fact-checking procedures for the book and the use of unnamed sources.
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Campaigns for career politicians like Clinton have close working relationships with fact-checking groups, particularly on debate nights.
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He once even told Trump that his budget proposals "don't add up" — fact-checking him in real time.
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They did not do as much fact-checking as Trump clearly requires (about which more in a minute).
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Luckily for a distrustful electorate, the internet was chock-full of news outlets doing real-time fact checking.
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And even when fact-checking succeeds at correcting misperceptions, it may not reduce supporters' embrace of the liar.
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One might guess that such imperviousness to professional fact-checking would be more or less exclusive to Republicans.
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More highlights from the speech here; real-time fact-checking and context from the New York Times here.
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"Muslims laughing" at Notre Dame and fact-checking photos in the era of false news Ciara O'Rourke writes about the growing challenges of fact-checking images found on sites like Facebook: The tools to manipulate images are "getting better and better," said Hany Farid, who studies digital forensics at Dartmouth College.
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The company cites the growing prominence of fact-checking sites as one of the reasons for creating the tag.
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Our new research shows that fact-checking prevents misinformation from shaping our thoughts — even our automatic and uncontrollable perceptions.
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Nick Merrill, a former Clinton campaign spokesman, immediately refuted Trump on Twitter and linked to a fact-checking website.
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For now, he recommends a more analog approach: Do your own fact-checking -- and soul-searching -- before you share.
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The issue isn't simply that publishers don't spring for fact-checking and leave writers vulnerable to making such errors.
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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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"The pattern is now extremely consistent," Pratik Sinha, founder of Indian fact-checking website Alt News, told BuzzFeed News.
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Facebook's partnerships with fact-checking organizations started in December 2016 in an effort to combat misinformation on its platform.
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Earlier in the campaign season I called up Graves to talk about fact-checking in the era of Trump.
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" Ocasio-Cortez: "Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?
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Facebook is paying the global news agency Reuters to carry out fact-checking on its behalf, Reuters announced Wednesday.
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Options include making it easier for people to report stories as fake and relying on respected fact-checking organisations.
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"Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?" she said.
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Many Congress members remain fixated on Facebook's recently solidified policy of refusing to submit political ads for fact-checking.
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Le Monde, a French newspaper, and Germany's Green Party are among several institutions to have launched fact-checking initiatives.
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Facebook announced Wednesday that it's launching a fact-checking initiative to combat fake news in a 15th country: Canada.
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And why does an account that's now supposedly run by "former scientists" need to employ journalists for fact checking?
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And, as always, you can follow along here with our live chat and real-time fact-checking and analysis.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?
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ABC News, which was part of the fact-checking effort when it began early last year, has dropped out.
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When Facebook farms out items to independent outfits for fact-checking, the evidence that it moderates behaviour is mixed.
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Fact-checking groups have circulated advice for spotting fake stories, and partnered with social media platforms to flag them.
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"Every point that Ms. Ward mentioned in what she called her 'fact checking' stage was entirely false," he said.
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"We were very conscious of the potential for selection bias from starting with the fact checking organizations," Aral said.
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Another tool, Tattle, attempted to integrate fact-checking databases into WhatsApp and re-share their findings back to users.
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But Google has explained the way its fact-checking process works in a little more detail in previous statements.
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So Facebook is essentially outsourcing these editorial judgments to independent organizations that are already in the fact-checking business.
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The company has been adding fact-checking tools for users and has sought out journalists to help combat misinformation.
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So, you've watched Feud and are about to tumble down the black hole of Old Hollywood internet fact-checking.
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"We know from a research perspective that fact-checking isn't always as efficient as we might think," she said.
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In short, Mr Trump has brilliantly manoeuvred himself into a place in which fact-checking him sounds like snobbery.
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As of yesterday, Facebook's fact checking partners began reviewing suspicious photos and videos which can also spread false information.
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Urge Facebook to crack down on outright falsehoods, make fact-checking easier, and serve links in a transparent way.
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I think we've always had an incredibly vigorous fact-checking and legal component to the work that we do.
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Only half of the people who had visited a fake news website had also visited a fact-checking site.
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Under the system, fact-checking partners rate content with labels and Facebook then downgrades the distribution of certain items.
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It will do so by prioritizing articles for fact-checking by using falsehood prediction scores generated through machine learning.
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Messenger, the standalone app for Facebook's private messaging feature, is not being included in the company's fact-checking program.
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If true, this is a case where a bug has revealed an inherent flaw in Facebook's fact-checking system.
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"I mean, if you're not fact-checking political advertisements I'm just trying to understand the bounds here," she said.
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Sorkin is the latest to criticize Facebook's choice to continue running political ads without fact-checking those ads first.
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And while Instagram lacks the fact-checking safeguards of more traditional scientific sources, it engenders a sincere, authentic experience.
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Meanwhile, Democrats have slammed Facebook for allowing politicians to publish ads that aren't subject to third-party fact-checking.
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The media's rigorous fact-checking of politicians' statements does help sometimes, but its effects do not tend to last.
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Several articles followed the initial Twitter backlash to Abramson's proofs, decrying the lack of fact-checking in book publishing.
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Both companies have stepped up their outreach to journalists in recent years through fact-checking partnerships and charitable grants.
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They are now promising us they will do better in the future by employing more people for fact checking.
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Instead of attacking CEO Jeff Bezos, President Donald Trump should start fact-checking his tweets, angel investor and Inside.
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The particular knot in which Mr. Trump entangled himself on Tuesday had come to light through simple fact-checking.
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"I just say at least 20,000 dead," said Ellen Tordesillas of Vera Files, a non-profit fact-checking group.
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Democrats standing up, fact-checking and drawing a line in the sand to protect America's core values is praiseworthy.
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To use this markup, publishers have to meet a certain set of criteria common to all fact checking resources.
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Our writers did an amazing job of researching and fact-checking and double-checking and just scouring for information.
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Results are scaled so they're both timely, and have the most consensus among the launch partners' fact checking services.
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Facebook says that these moderators, combined with artificial intelligence and fact-checking partnerships, have made the platform much safer.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — argue that Facebook is doing a disservice to the public by not fact-checking political ads.
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Highlights from cable CNN: Hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon featured analysis and fact checking from reporters and contributors.
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Teaching Word Choice, Persuasion and Fact Checking I am teaching a college-level composition course to high school juniors.
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It's also true that not fact-checking is a lot less expensive for the companies making those principled arguments.
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Ms. Córdova has been working on Comprova, a fact-checking project to monitor social media sites during Brazil's election.
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The internet and the fast-paced news environment mean that information travels quickly, leaving little time for fact-checking.
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The firm said it would continue to consult its fact-checking partners to identify misinformation that was most harmful.
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Producers at "60 Minutes" are preparing the segment, a process that often includes a legal review and fact-checking.
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The first conservative site Facebook partnered with for fact-checking was the Weekly Standard, which ceased operations last December.
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Realistically this was the only chance I'd ever have to witness fact-checking on stage, let alone on Broadway.
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When Ms. Jones explains that the magazine has traded its fact-checking department for "added functionality" in digital — ouch.
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"I like the idea of accountability journalism and the showing-your-work approach that fact-checking has," she said.
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Meanwhile, irresponsible conduct online continues, with only a few independent sites like the fact-checking blog Memebuster attempting scrutiny.
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But the greater danger is that, under the guise of fact-checking, social media companies will manipulate election information.
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The messaging firm said it is also donating $1 million to the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
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But the company has since added thousands of human content moderators and struck partnerships with human fact-checking organizations.
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Fact-checking sites like Snopes certainly help, but they do not cover every article or statement on the internet.
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Farrow describes several fact-checking phone calls with Weinstein in the days before The New Yorker published the article.
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When even the fact-checking process needs to be fact-checked... Concha is a media reporter for The Hill.
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Of late, Trump has expanded his war on truth to those who do the work of fact-checking him.
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"Every point that Ms. Ward mentioned in what she called her 'fact checking' stage was entirely false," Mirijanian said.
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If two of the fact-checking groups label a story false, then Facebook slaps a "disputed" tag on it.
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That code of conduct was created by the International Fact-Checking Network, which certified Health Feedback's parent, Science Feedback.
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Hemmer isn't known for aggressively fact-checking political falsehoods or challenging President Trump's misinformation the way that Smith did.
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Ms. Bickert said all videos posted would still be subject to Facebook's system for fact-checking potentially deceptive content.
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Today, there are two people fact-checking and a third coming on board to turn fact checks into video.
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A spokesperson for Full Fact told Business Insider that it has two key employees working on Facebook fact-checking.
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Meanwhile, Facebook has faced a wave of scrutiny over the size of its fact-checking operations in other countries.
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Fact-checking grew out of a journalistic tradition of not just explaining, but accepting, the world as it is.
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Then there was the fact-checking team, the first of its kind operating in Spanish in the United States.
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Such fact checking is essential, but it is also a task of the President's making, one full of traps.
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Facebook has received backlash from Democrats for not fact-checking political ads, a policy many say could benefit Trump.
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The Post's fact-checking unit counted more than 13,000 false or misleading statements by Mr. Trump as of October.
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For Ben Smith to pretend that fact-checking is the job of the reader controverts every tenet of journalism.
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Thanks to Lois Beckett, Alex Yablon, and especially Massad Ayoob for their help researching and fact-checking this piece.
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But the idea of crowdsourcing fact-checking also belies what some say is Mark Zuckerberg's fundamental misunderstanding of journalism.
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However, Facebook pushed back against one of the groups' key demands — to subject political ads to independent fact-checking.
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Instead, his toughest challenge appeared to be the fact-checking of Fox News hosts Chris Wallace and Megyn Kelly.
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Will the changes remove any checks and balances that help assure stories' accuracy or eliminate any fact-checking steps?
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Instagram is also clarifying how fact-checking will work for political sponsored content, since political ads are currently exempt.
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In France, Le Monde's Décodex was launched in January as part of the fact-checking section of its website.
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The issue isn't simply that publishers don't spring for fact-checking and leave writers vulnerable to making such errors.
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Formerly the managing editor of the OG fact-checking site Snopes, she now holds the same title at TruthOrFiction.
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The Internet Archive's broken link archiving could prove especially important in terms of Wikipedia's fact-checking capacity on YouTube.
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With Trump's absence, Quijano likely won't face the same fact-checking scrutiny as Holt during last week's presidential debate.
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This happened most infamously over social media, like Facebook, and Facebook has since begun adding its own fact checking tools.
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His report likely wouldn't be approved by a structural engineer, nor would it likely please a fact-checking super-shark.
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The fact-checking website PolitiFact has determined that statement, which Trump first made on the campaign trail, is mostly false.
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Sure, it might all sound good, but there has been long-standing criticism of Facebook's third party fact-checking partnerships.
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Other interviewers Sunday attempted to engage in fact-checking, asking Giuliani if Trump had actually done the things he claimed.
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"Mistakes like this happen because of carelessness, no fact checking, and a lack of understanding of other communities," Tagouri said.
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The second idea is that fact-checking may discourage politicians from lying, because it increases the costs if they lie.
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Zuckerberg has recently sparred with senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren over Facebook's decision to exempt politicians from fact-checking.
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On the latter issue, it's been working with third-party fact-checking organizations to flag disputed content in certain regions.
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The Babylon Bee, a Christian satire site with half a million followers on Facebook, has accused fact-checking site Snopes.
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She also questioned Zuckerberg over his company's policy of not subjecting ads by political candidates to third-party fact-checking.
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And you can follow along with The Times for up-to-the-minute fact-checking, analysis and a live chat.
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Be sure to follow along with The Times for up-to-the-minute fact-checking, analysis and our live chat.
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I mean, if you're not fact-checking political advertisements, I'm just trying to understand the bounds here, what's fair game.
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Or embellishing — a lot of people embellish things, and I would find out when I did initial light fact-checking.
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December 15thFacebook finally rolled out some "fixes" for its fake news problem, including community reporting and third-party fact-checking.
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Facebook launched the Facebook Journalism Project, and it recruited third-party fact-checking organizations to help monitor for fake news.
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You will also be working on the newspaper's weekly Indicators pages and fact-checking scripts for our Economist Films unit.
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But they did say on Friday that they are worried about the journalist not fact-checking Trump during the debate.
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Facebook is introducing third-party fact-checking in India, with a pilot program first starting in the state of Karnataka.
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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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"If there's a fact-checking operation in this White House, it's giving a bad name to the industry," he said.
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Printing whatever comes in to the tip line, and not doing actual fact-checking or being fair in any way.
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Zuckerberg said Facebook had reached out to many fact-checking organizations and was hoping to hear from others as well.
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It also claims the impact of fact-checking reduced the distribution of fake news by an average of 80 percent.
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Other members of the network include The Washington Post's fact-checking arm, as well as the Associated Press and Factcheck.
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The essay by Ms. Roiphe attracted attention before it was published, while it was going through the fact-checking process.
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Facebook has flagged, labeled, and down-ranked misinformation; it has banned fake accounts; it has partnered with fact checking organizations.
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The EU, which has expanded its own fact-checking team, urged online platforms to take greater action or risk regulation.
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Today, Google is expanding this efforts through a partnership with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute.
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Associated Press said it was currently not doing any fact-checking with Facebook and is in negotiations about future partnerships.
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A web-browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, RealDonaldContext annotates some of Trump's tweets with fact-checking from the Post.
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There's article sharing, and maybe some fact checking, but it's all mixed in with inane commentary on our daily lives.
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They need to put in all the visual elements and do the fact-checking and get it into the teleprompter.
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Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden, have criticized Facebook's fact-checking policies when it comes to political ads.
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"A Facebook representative, Lauren Svensson, told Vox that "we do believe in having a diverse set of fact-checking partners.
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According to New York Times' media columnist Jim Rutenberg, Tapper's blunt delivery and fact-checking were cathartic for his audience.
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Doctors working for fact-checking site Health Feedback labelled a Facebook video from anti-abortion campaigner Lila Rose as inaccurate.
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It's precisely because Facebook is shirking its responsibilities that it has decided to off-load fact-checking on other organizations.
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But fact-checking website PolitiFact rated Heitkamp's ad "false," pointing out that Cramer did not authorize his own pay raise.
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He does zero fact checking because, well, he's not interested in whether or not what he is saying is true.
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PolitiFact, the nonpartisan fact-checking organization, recently reviewed 158 claims that Mr. Trump has made during his campaign this year.
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At Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg responded by reaffirming that his company would continue to distribute political ads without fact-checking them.
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Communication planet Mercury clashes with your ruling planet Jupiter this morning, making for exciting conversations—but do your fact-checking!
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This is where the limits of fact-checking become apparent, because facts are not quite the same thing as truth.
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Trump ignored these attempts to shame him for falsehoods, just as he ignored all the fact-checking during the campaign.
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Instagram&aposs parent company Facebook has also been criticized recently for unevenly applying rules, exempting political ads from fact-checking.
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The company said that it would exempt political ads from fact-checking, which has been denounced by presidential candidate Sen.
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"It was like the guns were trained on the press," said Gemma Bagayaua-Mendoza, who runs Rappler's fact-checking team.
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Cristina Tardáguila, associate director of the International Fact-Checking Network, an arm of the nonprofit journalism organization the Poynter Institute.
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It has a label for "disputed" stories, brought in independent fact-checking partners and allows users to report false articles.
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Mr. Trump's defenders say fact-checking organizations like PolitiFact are politically biased, which Mr. Adair and his counterparts adamantly deny.
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But then she figured the whole thing out pretty quickly, and thanked the fact-checking community for their good work.
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It is contemptuous of outside fact-checking, no matter how assiduous, but endlessly gullible toward information shared on the inside.
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The heroic efforts of India's small band of independent fact-checking organizations should be bolstered with public and private support.
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Of the statements by Trump that the fact-checking site PolitiFact has checked, just 5 percent were deemed absolutely true.
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Claire Wardle, cofounder of the fact-checking nonprofit First Draft, said it's not surprising these false facts were circulating quickly.
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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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Science-t is a kind of social technology meant to counterbalance our individual propensity to error, through mutual fact-checking.
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BoomLive, a fact checking organization based in India, reported the affiliation of many of these people to the ruling party.
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In addition to requiring disclosures of payment, Facebook said it would also subject statements made by creators to fact-checking.
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Details: Many automated fact-checking systems are trained using a database of true statements called Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER).
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Fact-checking Trump's legal team Trump's legal team kicked off their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial Saturday morning.
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A statement on an official Singapore government fact-checking website, seen by Reuters, said the post by Bowyer was false.
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The fact-checking website PolitiFact repudiated that claim in a post that showed the topic's presence on the various websites.
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Beyond convenience, there is a certain logic to banning deepfakes while relying on fact-checking for old-school video manipulation.
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Finally, during the fact-checking process, our researchers carefully reviewed all the articles in the issue with subject-area experts.
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Last month, Facebook announced it had exempted politicians from third-party fact-checking, allowing them to put misinformation in ads.
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Facebook offers fact-checking in over 60 countries, though often with just one partner like Agence France-Presse's local branches.
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Facebook has created an independent fact-checking team with power to suppress posts it determines to be dishonest or misleading.
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Our reporters followed all of the exchanges, fact-checking the candidates and providing context and explanation for the policy debates.
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Other concepts have focused on "neighborhood" communities, tools for creating newsletters and fact-checking "fake news," and apps for vehicles.
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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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Instead of banning or fact checking ads, it has focused on initiatives such as the library to provide more transparency.
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But liberals fear that giving them airtime in the first place makes fact-checking difficult and adds to the confusion.
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You might also look at independent fact-checking websites used in the MIT study such as Snopes, PolitiFact and TruthOrFiction.com.
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Within weeks of the Franzen-Weiner dustup, Slate's now-defunct women-centric Double X vertical was fact-checking Weiner's hunch.
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Although Facebook has stepped up fact-checking, it still faces criticism that it is too slow to close rogue accounts.
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Here's a batch of fact-checking from ABC News, NPR, USA Today, the Guardian, the New York Times and PolitiFact.
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When fact-checking Trump, be precise about what his claims are, and if he hasn't made this clear, say so.
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Sow says that the misquote would have been caught in fact-checking if anyone had contacted her to verify it.
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In general, fact-checking is not a standard part of the workflow in book publishing, even in nonfiction book publishing.
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A top Republican senator is fact-checking President Donald Trump on the scope of the GOP's forthcoming tax reform package.
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The majority of Trump supporters have not cared about any of the fact-checking that we've done on Donald Trump.
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There are around 40 million monthly active users of Facebook in the UK.The disparity between the small size of Facebook's fact-checking team and the scale of its UK userbase raises questions about the company's ability to effectively police misinformation in the UK.Facebook's other UK fact-checking partner, FactCheckNI, focuses on Northern Ireland specifically.
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There were no questions about journalistic integrity, such as verifying your sources, fact-checking, or how to develop your interview skills.
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"If you look at the traffic rankings, AltNews is ahead of BoomLive," Pratik Sinha, who runs the fact-checking website AltNews.
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Musk seems unaware that there are fact-checking sites and social media efforts, however flawed, that attempt to hold journalists accountable.
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Garbus said what impressed her most from her year with the Times was its high standards on sourcing and fact checking.
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That figure is according to the fact-checking bureau at The Washington Post, which says Trump "crossed the threshold" on Jan.
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Treadway told Bloomberg at the time that they move was made due to declining revenue thanks to Facebook's fact-checking system.
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Fact-checking sites perform an invaluable service, but they are labor-intensive, not a self-regulating system like what Musk proposes.
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TG: Do you think this shift toward more analytical journalism and fact-checking has led to more distrust in the media?
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Fact-checking is not just about spreading accurate information but about forcing politicians to account publicly for the things they say.
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CNN has taken to fact-checking Trump claims directly in on-screen graphics, and other cable news agencies have followed on.
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Read These Stories Next: Fact-Checking Kanye West's Yeezy Twitter Rant Why Does Fashion Love Virgil Abloh But Shun Kanye West?
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Advertising sales are declining, subscribers are dying off and a "streamlined" editorial process has dispensed with the old fact-checking department.
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Exclusive: Facebook adds new fact-checking partner Snopes is out, but a new fact checker has been added to Facebook's roster.
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The post also noted that Facebook's fact-checking partners will be highlighted with a special "badge" in the related articles module.
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Their work has in turn prompted giants like Globo and Estado de São Paulo, a newspaper, to create fact-checking teams.
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And there'll be a fact-checking component to every story, addressing the fake news problem that's plagued social networks like Facebook.
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Verificado 2000 is the brainchild of Tania Montalvo, the editor of the fact-checking unit at digital media outlet Animal Político.
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We are hoping to help untangle conflicting evidence about when fact-checking helps stop hoaxes from spreading and when it doesn't.
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Upset over his lack of fact-checking of Trump, the Clinton campaign sent a fundraising email to their supporters hitting Lauer.
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In the future, we will be installing more stringent fact-checking procedures to ensure these types of error do not happen.
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To bolster this claim, Facebook will begin working with third-party fact checking organizations to check out potentially fake news stories.
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With regard to fact-checking, "Lester is not going to be a potted plant," one NBC staffer close to Holt said.
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Now the search giant is adding "fact check" to the list "to help readers find fact checking in large news stories".
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Finally, many of the rumors about the social, psychological, and political pathologies loosed by social media do not survive fact-checking.
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Yes, but: Just because an outlet is approved as part of the fact-checking network doesn't mean that it's not partisan.
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At the same time, Nyhan has since collaborated with Porter and Wood on research that shows fact-checking can be effective.
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Why it matters: Fact-checking and news literacy has become a pressing issue for younger generations who are growing up online.
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Image: Gizmodo Last week, conservatives cried foul over Google's latest attempt to provide past examples of fact-checking for news outlets.
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Harbath said the company can now quickly detect viral, politically sensitive stories and refer them for fact-checking by outside organizations.
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But those changes sparked criticism from conservative media outlets, including Breitbart, who worry that the fact-checking will not be objective.
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Facebook is rolling out its fact-checking program for "related articles," more broadly using machine learning, a Facebook spokesperson tells Axios.
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FACEBOOK SAYS IN AUSTRALIA, WILL LAUNCH THIRD-PARTY FACT-CHECKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (AFP)
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As The Guardian notes, Facebook has yet to deploy any fact-checking systems, despite being an increasingly important source of news.
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Donald Trump railed at reporters for fact-checking his promises and revealing delays in donations he promised military veterans in January.
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Facebook has been facing criticism for its policy exempting political ads with misinformation from the normal third-party fact-checking process.
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One thing is clear to anyone who has worked in a newsroom: Not all fact-checking decisions are black and white.
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Research actually suggests that men are more likely to be raped than falsely accused of rape, per Channel 4 fact-checking.
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A study conducted by the American Press Institute found that the number of fact-checking stories tripled between 2008 and 2012.
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"I'm sorry, this has been given four Pinocchios multiple times," Jayapal replied, referring to The Washington Post's metric for fact-checking.
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The answer is laziness…as when they take a press release and simply disseminate its content without verification or fact-checking.
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To the Editor: With respect to fact-checking the G.O.P. debate, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
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But Facebook won't flag the stories as "disputed" unless at least two of the fact-checking groups say there's a problem.
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Shortly after Facebook announced it wasn't fact-checking political ads, Twitter said last week that it would ban political ads entirely.
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Last month Facebook announced it would exempt political ads from fact-checking, essentially meaning politicians could lie to voters in ads.
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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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"There is no official crime category called 'farm attack' or 'farm murder,' " according to Africa Check, a local fact-checking organization.
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Before sharing a viral story on Election Day that looks suspicious, check a fact-checking website such as Snopes or FactCheck.
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Notice the implicit assumption here – namely, that impartial fact-checking would find an equal number of false claims from each party.
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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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My answer is that we have to try harder, relying on evidence about what kind of fact-checking seems more successful.
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Snopes, the fact-checking website, said, "lobbing vague claims about likely events does not a prediction make," when examining Browne's prophecy.
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I really do think, like, our--the next phase, I think, of media is to be much more about fact-checking.
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"There is an ecosystem of fake news around this election," said Alphonce Shiundu, editor of Africa Check, a fact-checking organization.
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Facebook hasn't backed down from its fact-checking exemption; YouTube is still a leading platform for conspiracy theorists and climate denial.
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The company, and its top executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, have argued the importance of not fact-checking these ads.
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While Biden&aposs criticism of Facebook&aposs policy against fact-checking political ads aligns with other Democratic presidential candidates including Sens.
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Wasserstein said the teams most impacted by the cuts were the video department, audience development team, and copy and fact checking.
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While Facebook has resisted fact-checking ads from politicians, the company won't allow office-holders to spread misinformation about the census.
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Facebook has been fact-checking posts that have been spreading false information in an attempt to stem the tide of misinformation.
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First, Texas Central, the organization at the heart of the story, was never contacted and standard fact checking was not done.
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Wolff's book has dominated cable news since excerpts became public on Wednesday as many have questioned its sourcing and fact-checking.
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According to fact-checking by the Washington Post, Trump reached 15,000 false or misleading statements by his thousandth day in office.
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"Our readers have shown us that they want real-time fact-checking, and they respond very powerfully to it," Ryan said.
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FactCheckNI is dedicated to fact-checking specialising in Northern Ireland — meaning Full Fact is Facebook's only partner covering the entire country.
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" Keren Goldshlager, Facebook Integrity Partnerships said "Expanding our fact-checking program is an important part of our work to fight misinformation.
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A few nonfiction editors at major publishing companies have started including rigorous professional fact-checking in their suite of editorial services.
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Barry Harbaugh, a senior editor at Amazon Publishing, said the company paid for fact-checking for many of its nonfiction titles.
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A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business it was working with its fact-checking partners to debunk false claims about the virus.
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Mr. Macron answered with serious fact-checking about the resilience of the very ISIS that Mr. Trump claimed to have defeated.
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It's meant to resemble well-known fact-checking websites that have been in vogue in recent years like Snopes and Politifact.
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Clinton's team has called on moderators to play a role in fact-checking the participants, but Trump wants a passive moderator.
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This would theoretically stop politicians from spreading obvious, existing viral hoaxes, which are the primary target of Facebook's fact-checking program.
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Facebook then removed the fact-check while the independent International Fact-Checking Network reviews if it violated any of its principles.
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An attack on the right target is too alluring for journalists to get bogged down in fairness, fact checking, or decency.
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" He admitted to being allergic to fact-checking and that some of the items in "Fire & Fury" may be "badly untrue.
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Just yesterday, I quoted the very expert relied upon by the Post in its fact-checking analysis to highlight this view.
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"People erroneously assume that GoFundMe is doing fact checking," Adrienne Gonzalez, who monitors the platform on her Web site, GoFraudMe, said.
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Our reporters are following all of the exchanges and fact-checking the candidates, providing context and explanation on the policy debates.
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"I'd hate to be in the middle of an election where this type of fact checking isn't taking place," she added.
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A representative for Chariton blasted the outlet for initially publishing the claims on its contributors page without fact-checking their veracity.
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They record it, above all, for fact-checking purposes, to ensure that every word they quote from an interview is accurate.
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Combine that proposition with Trump's tendencies, and it follows that media outlets shouldn't spread the president's claims without fact-checking them.
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But intentional or not, it's worth noting that evading fact checking is built into the way conspiracy content creators use YouTube.
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As it turns out, fact-checking experts tend to agree with Clinton's campaign on this one: To have the highest impact, moderators should fact-check the debates live, Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, tells me.
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Google, meanwhile, began rolling out fact checking tags to its news sections late last year, before bringing them to search in April.
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The stories examined in the study were reviewed by six independent fact-checking organizations including Snopes and Politifact to assess their veracity.
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When fact-checking calls out what isn't credible, much of the influence that may have been done to our perceptions is undone.
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It makes their decision to address the problem in other areas by redirecting users to Wikipedia for fact-checking even more baffling.
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The A Team At a certain point, beyond fact-checking Paulette's background, I knew I had to look into her online critics.
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Fact checking Keystone job claims The State Department in January 2015 concluded the project would create about 42,000 jobs directly and indirectly.
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So you think the public's awareness of "fake" news and "alternative" facts is motivating journalists to be more rigorous about fact checking?
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They are all certified by the International Fact-Checking Network, a non-partisan unit of the Poynter Institute launched in September 2100.
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They were also outraged at USA Today, to say the least, and called the publication out for not fact-checking Trump's claims.
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Reporting stories, fact-checking sources, and communicating in real time demands reliable Internet access, which explains why many reporters carry mobile hotspots.
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And the press applies even more scrutiny and fact checking to the occupant of the Oval Office than it does to candidates.
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Because for the current moment, all of these fact-checking efforts are now inexorably tied to this out of control, politicized controversy.
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The search engine won't be hiring an in-house team, however, and it won't be paying the companies doing the fact-checking.
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Yet all the fact-checking by all the news organizations hasn't yet produced even a shudder on the dial of public opinion.
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In India, the company will use information from about half a dozen verified fact-checking services in India to show these panels.
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Facebook already uses image detection technology to find content that has been debunked by its third-party fact checking program on Instagram.
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Facebook's fact-checking partnership began back in December, and people have started seeing fake news get flagged over the last few months.
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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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"Your anxiety can say that you're not ready, and that's where fact-checking with yourself can be really helpful," Dr. Chansky says.
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For consumers and advertisers, it's not immediately clear that political ads are exempt from the fact-checking that other ads go through.
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To get a handle on misinformation that's being distributed by video, Facebook is expanding its fact-checking program with the Associated Press.
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The people interviewed were mainly concerned that the policies behind content moderation, ad approval, fact-checking and so on were inadequately explained.
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McKay said "Vice" underwent rigorous fact-checking and some Cheney fans "still can't admit they were wrong" in backing the Iraq war.
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For consumers and advertisers, it's not immediately clear that political ads are exempt from the fact-checking that other ads go through.
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Zuckerberg also said that the topic of Facebook's policies on fact-checking politicians did not come up during his conversation with Trump.
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Three fact-checking sites have started up in Brazil over the past two years, including Truco, which is part of Agência Pública.
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Worries over the economy, potential terrorist attacks and immigration proved more important than all the fact-checking by newspapers and TV networks.
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There are many respected fact checking organizations and, while we have reached out to some, we plan to learn from many more.
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Either our great business genius is incapable of mental fact-checking, or he has about as much political courage as a rabbit.
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Hoaxy does not determine whether a story is real but it shows how it is spread online and shows related fact-checking.
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As the J's and I sit in the show's production office discussing fact checking, they proudly gesture to a giant red wall.
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Fact-checking the Dem convention speeches from Day 3 That breaks down to 33% female, 2000% people of color, and 22% LGBT.
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Facebook largely seems to rely on third-party fact-checking services like Snopes and PolitiFact to determine what is and isn't real.
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For that, Facebook needs AI training data that will be produced as exhaust from its partners' photo and video fact checking operations.
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And while there are plenty of fact-checking organizations, unless you are looking for their data, you aren't likely to see it.
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The researchers used statistical models to classify tweets as false or true, by applying data taken from six independent fact-checking organisations.
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Publishers can choose to share their ethics policy, corrections policy, fact-checking policy, ownership structure, and masthead, according to a Facebook spokesperson.
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More traditional conservative outlets like the National Review, the Washington Free Beacon, and the Weekly Standard don't generate fact-checking modules either.
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He also attacked Scott's negative television ads, saying they had been found to be false by fact-checking organizations and press accounts.
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Recently, Google has been rolling out a fact-checking widget labeled "reviewed claims" that appears on the knowledge panel of certain outlets.
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But fact-checking a post or video takes precious time, during which rumors and misinformation can continue to spread at internet speeds.
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But Judge Schwab found the statements citing innuendo and fact-checking were "a far cry" from labeling the accusers liars and extortionists.
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Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors (SN), created by Snopes, the oldest and largest online fact-checking organization.
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He urged his viewers to start fact-checking their news sources and verifying stories they see on social media before spreading them.
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Economists and fact-checking organizations have questioned that number, which includes economic activity surrounding the Super Bowl, held last month in Houston.
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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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Regrettably, Paltrow is wary of fact-checking the health advice about the healing powers of gems and crystals she so freely shares.
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In "wellness" and health, as in politics, if you *refuse* to submit to a good fact-checking process, nobody should trust you.
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Guides Editor is a former research chief at Men's Fitness who oversaw the fact-checking of the magazine's nutrition and exercise articles.
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Some traditionalists are horrified at the recent journalistic toughening, and it's true that fact-checking is a high-wire act for moderators.
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In particular, Zuckerberg struggled with questions about the company's policy for fact-checking political advertisements and its efforts around diversity and inclusion.
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A Facebook spokesman said political ads are not subject to third-party fact-checking, but ads from brands and ordinary users are.
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In recent months, the most powerful social network has tried to balance free political speech with fact-checking paid and organic posts.
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Trump tells so many lies, so often, that not even Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan fact-checking website can keep score.
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The robust fact-checking industry that has sprung up over the past several years will have to work overtime during both conventions.
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Its policies are complex and difficult to understand, with countless rules and separate exceptions for advertising, original content, fact-checking, and more.
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But one clumsy attempt at fact-checking, and the partisan attacks it drew, should not be used to muzzle this year's moderators.
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It was retracted after fact-checking sites such as Snopes showed that it was spun from an obvious high-school yearbook joke.
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The minute Facebook accepts responsibility for ferreting out misinformation, users will start believing that it is fact-checking everything on the site.
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Facebook has refused to subject political ads to fact-checking and has declined to take down ads with false or misleading claims.
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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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Without fact-checking websites, it would be much more difficult to find accurate and reliable information about claims made by political leaders.
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Some journalists do make mistakes by tweeting too fast, by not fact checking with multiples sources, or by sometimes trusting unreliable sources.
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All tips are sent to India-based start-up PROTO, which using a fact-checking software called "Check" to investigate the rumors.
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They're having a big meeting in Rome right now, and it looks like lots of progress is being made in fact-checking.
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Goop editors had to replace stories for the magazine at the last minute because they couldn't get past Condé's fact-checking department.
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"Facebook exempts politicians from our third-party fact-checking program," VP of global affairs and communication Nick Clegg wrote in late September.
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Khloe Kardashian, whose father fought OJ's case, has already started fact-checking the series, while OJ's in prison for another crime altogether.
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It's why Facebook's fact-checking system doesn't take effect until it's too late and a piece of content has achieved massive distribution.
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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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Elle se sert de Twitter et de YouTube, et fournit aux élèves les liens de sites de référence pour le fact-checking.
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Fact-checking is a core value in mainstream media, but right-wing politicians seem to get away with ignoring media criticism altogether.
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For fact-checking to hold weight, both politicians and the public need to first agree that facts are necessary and useful things.
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The platform's automated fact-checking feature — a box that shows facts to help viewers contextualize footage — incorrectly displayed information about the Sept.
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The fact-checking outlet ruled last week that he had, in fact, introduced the first bill addressing climate change in the 1980s.
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"In some cases, fact-checking can backfire, particularly with people who are resistant to the information in the first place," Reifler said.
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Instagram and Facebook both use third-party fact-checking to police their services, and frequently remove posts that are flagged as false.
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It has also set up fact-checking groups and altered its advertising practices to bar those who seek to spread false news.
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The pandemic poses a significant stress test for ramped-up fact-checking resources that Facebook helped fund ahead of the 2020 elections.
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Above all, they've tried to browbeat the companies into adopting better policies around things like fact-checking, content moderation, and political ads.
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But according to Snopes, the fact-checking site, none of the images are of caravan members, and none were taken this year.
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This case is a particularly dismaying and consequential example of what happens when no one bothers to engage in scientific fact-checking.
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What makes this answer work is that while it's evasive on the taxes point, it also stands up to fact-checking scrutiny.
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They will twist, feature and broadcast any stray thought for ratings, then refer to their journalistic integrity and dubious fact-checking credibility.
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On Saturday, Mr. Biden invoked PolitiFact, the fact-checking outlet, which ruled that the Sanders campaign claim was false and lacked context.
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Cut the video of the hearing to focus on the most newsy segments, incorporate fact-checking and pepper in more original reporting.
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It's notable that after months of touting its internal teams and expanding its fact-checking programs, Facebook is looking outside the company.
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The large media outlets that are tarred as "liberal" for their rigorous fact-checking and actual reporting continue to cover world affairs.
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Facebook currently exempts politicians from third-party fact-checking and allows them to post content that would otherwise be against community guidelines.
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In December, Facebook promised to address the spread of misinformation on its platform, in part by working with outside fact-checking groups.
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Paying Reuters to help is another step in the right direction for Facebook that's now two years into its fact-checking foray.
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"If you look at political ads and fact-checking political ads, that's really not something anyone is capable of doing," she said.
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Facebook does not remove false news, though it does label some stories as false through a partnership with several fact-checking organizations.
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To get there, the nonprofit, which is operated by the Poynter Institute, will add to its five person Facebook fact-checking team.
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A similar post from Judicial Watch was shared roughly 103,000 times on that platform before it was flagged to fact-checking partners.
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The eerie parallel was first pointed out by Brooke Binkowski, a journalist and former managing editor of the fact-checking website Snopes.
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Facebook's fact-checking partners rated some misinformation about the disease as false, which reduces the appearance of the content in news feeds.
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Google has been running hoax news ads on fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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While the policy changes may satisfy some of the company's critics, Facebook will likely face continued backlash for its fact-checking policy.
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From a fact-checking standpoint, Trump, again, benefits from the sheer volume of news -- and the content he creates off of it.
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" From Tonya Riley, Technology 202 and Cybersecurity 0003 researcher: "This year we saw Facebook dedicate new resources to fact-checking on Instagram.
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But the Tim Duggan fact-checking project was an exception, not the norm, and it's not clear that it survived into 2018.
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Complaining about, mocking, and pedantically fact-checking Fox is easy, and liberals have been doing all of the above since the Clinton administration.
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The latest move to strengthen the fact checking program is aimed at verifying the accuracy of stories and preventing the spread of hoaxes.
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First, we put together a database of all the fake news we can find that has been flagged by those fact-checking websites.
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Facebook has been talking up its third-party fact-checking partners as the company continues its war against fake news and misinformation campaigns.
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Chop & Steele lift jugs of gravy, karate chop small sticks, and draw attention to a lack of fact checking on morning TV shows.
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Agencia Lupa, a fact-checking organization working with Facebook in Brazil, said that they have already fact-checked two photos through Facebook's dashboard.
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Fact-checking, outrage, reasoned pleas—Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his outlandish claims have withstood admonishments that would crush a conventional candidate.
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These days, partisan groups and political campaigns themselves engage in what they call 'fact-checking,' but only when it serves their own interests.
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When misinformation is only present on Instagram the company is testing the ability to promote links into the fact-checking product on Facebook.
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Call it a filter, if you like, but their job is to provide context and fact-checking as a balance against candidates' bluster.
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Facebook has also come under fire for not fact-checking ads run by politicians, even when those politicians run ads that contain falsehoods.
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Facebook is finally going to start fact-checking news on its platform in India, its largest market with more than 240 million users.
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CNN President Jeff Zucker on Thursday denounced Facebook for what he called its "absolutely ludicrous" policy that exempts political advertisements from fact-checking.
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Using data from its fact-checking partners, Facebook would try to inform users about questionable or false "news" stories shared by their friends.
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Fact-checking website PolitiFact declared Trump's continued proclamations that Russian interference is a "made-up story" as its 2017 Lie of the Year.
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Case in point: the controversy surrounding Facebook's decision to partner in fact-checking with a website owned by conservative outlet the Daily Caller.
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Read These Stories Next:These Celebrities Have Beauty Routines For Their Boobs Yep, Bike Shorts Are Happening Fact-Checking Kanye West's Yeezy Twitter Rant
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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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Maria Ressa is the CEO and executive editor of news site Rappler, which is one of Facebook's fact checking partners in the Philippines.
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Fact checking Trump involves asking weird questions to experts who do not traditionally get roped into articles on the dishonesty of elected officials.
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To produce this story, we used this list as well as some sites brought to our attention by fact-checking website Lead Stories.
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" Nanda said Tuesday that the DNC was "deeply disappointed in Facebook's decision to exempt statements from political candidates from its fact-checking policy.
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A Facebook spokesperson said in some cases the Snopes fact checks were not submitted via the tool Facebook provides its fact-checking partners.
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Under Facebook's fact-checking system, stories reported as fake by users will be sent to Correctiv, a nonprofit news organization based in Berlin.
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But Lepofsky would like to see some built-in intelligence to help guide in creation, suggested responses, finding similar content and fact checking.
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YouTube began rolling out the fact-checking "information panels" this year in India and they now appear to be available in other countries.
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The New York City Police Department apparently took issue with both of these claims: Even the NYPD was fact-checking the debate: pic.twitter.
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