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    Articles tagged FactCheck.org (12)

    Loudspeakers, interactive plays, and trap music: Google awards $3 million to news organizations testing new ways to fight misinformation
    Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 15, 2017
    You could change your mind. Or maybe (comforting thought!) you could just let Facebook do it for you
    Plus: “The year’s most consequential storylines have collided,” the differences between “observational” and direct correction, and one more trip to Macedonia.
    The Internet Archive is building up a Trump presidential library — of everything he’s ever said, on video
    Laura Hazard OwenDecember 15, 2016
    Clamping down on viral fake news, Facebook partners with sites like Snopes and adds new user reporting
    A new system funnels fake news reports to fact-checkers from Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, ABC, and AP.
    Joseph LichtermanMarch 9, 2016
    The Political TV Ad Archive is making it easier for journalists to report on campaign spots
    The database run by the Internet Archive is collecting ads in 20 markets across eight states.
    Joseph LichtermanMarch 18, 2014
    The nonprofit Africa Check wants to build more fact-checking into the continent’s journalism
    The site, backed by the Agence France-Presse Foundation, is starting in South Africa but hopes to spread elsewhere.
    John WihbeyJune 26, 2013
    What’s New in Digital Scholarship: A generation gap in online news, and does The Daily Show discourage tolerance?
    The rise and fall of a narcotweeter, how to build an online community, and when fact-checking backfires: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
    Lucas GravesJanuary 18, 2012
    Digging deeper into The New York Times’ fact-checking faux pas
    “Truth vigilante” or no, the hubbub over fact-checking in news articles gets at some deeper issues about how journalists view their own work.
    Truth-O-Meter, franchised: PolitiFact places its bets on expanding to states
    In its expansion, PolitiFact sets its sights on becoming an Associated Press for fact-checking. Justin Ellis
    NewsTrust dives into the fact-check business with expanded Truthsquad
    Truthsquad’s twist is that, more than Politifact or Factcheck.org, it’ll try to balance the knowledge of the crowd with the reporting of professional journalists. Justin Ellis
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