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Fact-checking organization Snopes has been forced to scale back its routine content production and special projects, as the amount of misinformation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed its fact-checkers. […]
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The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and Facebook have partnered to support the fact-checking community working on the COVID-19 related misinformation with a budget of $1 million. Since January, the IFCN, […]
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The novel coronavirus has spread to over 60 countries alongside its darker cousin: false information about the disease, how it spreads and how we can protect ourselves against it. The […]
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An outbreak of coronavirus that began in Wuhan, China, and spread globally has caused nearly 3,000 deaths worldwide. BuzzFeed News has a running list of falsehoods and unverified information following […]
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Global fact checkers come across new false stories every day. From well-trodden conspiracies on climate science, to creative but downright dangerous ābeauty hacksā circulating on social media, tackling bad information […]
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The students sit at desks in groups of four, watching videos about the recent bush fires in Australia. One shows an apocalyptic landscape in flames, the other a tourist paradise, […]
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People are often incredibly wrong about key social and political realities in their countries, as I explore in my book, Why Weāre Wrong About Nearly Everything, which draws on over […]
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Even though internal Fox News documents caution that frequent guests Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon traffic in ādisinformation,ā the network canāt seem to quit booking them. Since The Daily Beast […]