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Articles tagged fact-checking (108)

Randy Stein and Caroline MeyersohnAugust 6, 2024

Readers are more suspicious of journalists providing corrections than journalists providing confirmations

The challenge for journalists may be figuring out how to provide debunkings without seeming like a debunker.

Journalists confront disinformation head-on

“Existing efforts to expose disinformation and build trust are not enough. But the fact that more funders and news organizations are centering them is promising.” Sharon Moshavi

Fact-checking needs a reboot

“‘Informing democracy’ is not enough in an age of rampant lies about elections and public health and climate. Fact-checkers need to be more assertive in getting truthful information to the audience that needs it.” Bill Adair

Eli GottliebNovember 15, 2023

People fact-check social media posts more thoughtfully when they’re paired with someone who doesn’t share their perspective

“Because publicly funded educational institutions are committed to promoting informed debate and preparing the nation’s future citizens, my colleagues and I believe they remain some of the most promising places to try this approach.”

Madeleine BairOctober 24, 2023

What El Tímpano learned training 100+ Latino immigrants on disinformation defense

COVID-19 wasn’t the most common issue that workshop participants brought up. Neither was politics. What was? Consumer fraud.

Phillip AnjorinOctober 18, 2023

The Nigeria Fact-Checkers’ Coalition showed how collaborative journalism can work in West Africa

“I don’t want to build animosity between my neighbors because of information I can’t confirm.”

Joshua BentonJune 29, 2023

When it comes to misinformation, partisanship overpowers fact-checking, over and over again

“Why do people fail to update their beliefs in light of clear evidence to the contrary? Our research provides an answer: partisanship is a powerful factor that can lead people away from accuracy.”

Hanaa' TameezMay 16, 2022

Factchequeado launches to combat misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.

“One of our approaches here is thinking if we manage [to get] platforms and the companies to put attention into Spanish-language misinformation in the U.S., that is going to benefit our regions in the long term.”

Shraddha ChakradharMarch 10, 2022

“Perfect moderation does not exist,” but here are some lessons from Twitter’s labels of Trump tweets

“How can you make people discuss [information] instead of polarizing them further?” A new study offers some clues.

Taylor DotsonJanuary 18, 2022

Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better

“The more that a study looked like the real world, the less fact-checking changed participants’ minds.”

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