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Focus Tag: Fact Checking
How to disrupt America’s history of rebranding misinformation as ‘science’ | CNN
by Nicole Hemmer
September 28, 2021
This fall was supposed to be different. With the new Covid-19 vaccines, the country began to reopen during the summer…
Misinformation is a global problem. One of the solutions might work across continents too. | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Sarah Scire
September 16, 2021
Is there something WEIRD about fact-checking? Much of the research about combating misinformation with fact-checking comes from experiments that looked…
The battleground of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook: Fact checkers vs. misinformation spreaders | HKS Misinformation Review
by Aimei Yang et al.
September 2, 2021
Our study examines Facebook posts containing nine prominent COVID-19 vaccine misinformation topics that circulated on the platform between March 1st,…
Reverso builds a culture of accountability ahead of Argentina’s midterm elections | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas
August 18, 2021
Speed and reach are the cornerstones of the second iteration of Reverso — a collaboration of Argentinian media organizations fighting…
People do not trust that Facebook is a healthy ecosystem | Vox Recode
by Shirin Ghaffary
August 9, 2021
New York University researcher Laura Edelson is at the center of the latest major Facebook controversy over the misinformation that’s eroding…
Global Disinfo Summit
August 9, 2021
The events of 2020 have demonstrated the power of disinformation and its effect on the public’s perceptions. New technologies, such…
Fact checks of 10 prominent types of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines | Poynter
by Bill McCarthy
July 28, 2021
Since the coronavirus pandemic erupted last year, PolitiFact has fact-checked hundreds of misleading statements about the development, deployment, content, safety and effectiveness…
International Counterathon Workshop | AI4Dignity
July 27, 2021
Team AI4Dignity is organizing a two-day collaborative coding event with fact checkers, AI developers and academic researchers to improve machine…
The argument over content moderation is ‘missing context’ | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas
July 22, 2021
President Joe Biden and Facebook’s tête-à-tête over social media companies’ culpability in spreading false information about vaccines raised familiar questions…