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At GreenPolicy360, our mission statement supports fact finding and the '3 Ds' -- Discussion โก๏ธ Debate โก๏ธ Decision-Making
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Dis-info, Mis-info, Lies & Manipulations, a Threat to a Working Democracy
Hannah Arendt: The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
Disinformation, misinformation, false statements, misleading claims, a decade old word - truthiness - returns with a vengeance -- it's the temper of the times.
Amid the turmoil, GreenPolicy360 continues to search for facts, with science as a guide, a rational course in chaotic times...
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Fact Checking โก๏ธ Fact Finding
To observe out-in-front leadership, visit the fact-checking and -finding work of the Poynter Institute, GreenPolicy360.
PolitiFact and the Independent Fact-Checking Network
Starting up here in the Tampa Bay, Florida ... the Poynter Institute's model initiatives -- MediaWise, PolitiFact and the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) -- have spread their work across the US, city to city and internationally, defending democratic institutions in the process. From local to national to global, the Fact Checking movement educates, informs and increases awareness of disinformation and cyber-manipulation across the current e-media of the world. See the stats and story following that Green Policy has tracked over the years.
As of 2025, there are 151 worldwide signatories to the following 'Code of Principles'.
Visit the Fact-Checking List of Signatories:
Signatories of the IFCN Code of Principles are subjected to the established vetting process and evaluated by external assessors. Through this process, an organization must exhibit a commitment to nonpartisanship and fairness, transparency of sources, transparency of funding and organization, transparency of methodology, and a commitment to open and honest corrections.
Drill down with a closer look:
Fact Checking, Facts Count
- Facts are a highest priority @GreenPolicy360/StraDem
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking | Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360
- https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ - https://reporterslab.org/locations/ | 446 sites/locations globally (2024)
- https://reporterslab.org/fact-checkers-extend-their-global-reach-with-391-outlets-but-growth-has-slowed/ | 100+ Countries-391 Fact-Checking Sites (2022)
- https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ | 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)
- https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ | 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)
- http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ | 37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)
- https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ | MediaWise for Teens
- http://www.politifact.com/ | PolitiFact via Poynter
- https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ | Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network
- http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ | Poynter Int'l List
- https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ | Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News
List of Fact-checking websites (Updated at Wikipedia):
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Disinformation - Online - Dangerous
Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
Consider the Damage of Disinformation, a Modern Plague
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Facts in the News
2025
Daniel Dale Is a Very Busy Reporter in the Trump Era
Facts First / CNN
Fact check: Trump falsely claims itโs only beef, but dozens of groceries have gotten more expensive this year
November 7, 2025
An egregious pattern of lies, a documented trail reported over years.
Reporters and news sources, fact checkers and fact checking at work...
FLASHBACK
Take, for example, Lucas Graves, a journalism and mass communications professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: Rejecting fact-checking has become a form of tribalism among some Republicans.
"Within the political establishment on the right, it is now considered quite legitimate โ and quite legitimate to say publicly and openly โ that you disapprove of fact-checking,โ said Lucas, author of Deciding Whatโs True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.
"Take Trumpโs unusual relationship with the truth โ even for a politician...โ
The Washington Post Fact Checker team tallied that by the end of Trumpโs presidency, he had made 30,573 false or misleading claims โ an average of about 21 false, erroneous or misleading claims a day...
Facing a Tide of Dis-info and Mis-info
A President and Legacy of Dis- and Mis-information
At GreenPolicy360 we continue to advocate for science and facts. Fact checking and fact finding increasingly have grown in importance as social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc) can exponentially multiply falsehoods and untruths.
In the era of the Internet, politics is taking on new powers to reach, engage, interact with, convert and motivate targeted audiences with calls to action.
Fact checking is essential in a fast changing and evolving Internet ....
Facts are essential for a functional, credible democratic government ....
Washington Post
By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency โ averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.
Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.
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April 2nd Is International Fact-Checking Day
ViaPoynter
Has fact-checking ever been more important, especially at a time when political leaders โ including the president of the United States and his followers โ label everything they donโt like as โfake news?โ
Will the future of fact-checking flourish or founder? 2025 marks a new turning point
- Now is the time for action to protect the work that holds the line on reality
By: Angie Drobnic Holan
April 2, 2025
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Meta/Facebook-Instagram-Threads Press Release
UPDATED | JANUARY 7, 2025
In the coming months, Meta will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and begin moving to a community-based program called Community Notes. We are beginning with rolling out Community Notes in the US, and will continue to improve it over the course of the year before expansion to other countries (read more here).
(Sample) Community Notes form used by X in 2024
Today in the rest of the world, we rely on fact-checkers who are independent from Meta and certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or, in Europe, the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) to address misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. While fact-checkers focus on the legitimacy and accuracy of information, we focus on taking action by informing people when content has been rated.
January 14
Soon to be out of a job, Metaโs fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories
Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department,โ said Alan Duke, a former CNN journalist who co-founded the fact-checking outlet Lead Stories, one of dozens of such organizations around the world funded by Meta.
Meta has not announced when it will formally end its fact-checking program, but a person familiar with the program said it could be eliminated as soon as March. The decision will force some of Metaโs fact-checking partners to lay off staff or shut down once the companyโs financial support dries up.
January 8
Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerbergโs assertion their work was โbiasedโ
Metaโs surprise decision to scrap its fact-checking partnerships โ blindsiding journalists involved in the program and putting some out of work โ is part of a much bigger shift in media and politics.
The very notion of fact-checking is under assault by a wide array of fact-challenged politicians and interest groups. Particularly on the right, โfact-checkโ has been turned into a dirty word, one that presupposes the fact-checker is actually suppressing some inconvenient truth.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg played right into that assumption on Tuesday when he insulted fact-checkers as โtoo politically biasedโ and said they โhave destroyed more trust than theyโve created, especially in the U.S.โ
Destroyed trust among whom, exactly? Zuckerberg didnโt say. But President-elect Donald Trump, who keeps fact-checkers busy and hates being corrected by them, welcomed Metaโs changes. So did the wide world of pro-Trump media. โTrump gets results,โ Foxโs Laura Ingraham said Tuesday night, touting Metaโs โmajor shakeup.โ
Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network, said the decision โwill hurt social media users who are looking for accurate, reliable information to make decisions about their everyday lives and interactions with friends and family.โ
Holan, the former editor of PolitiFact, challenged Zuckerbergโs claim about bias, saying โthat attack line comes from those who feel they should be able to exaggerate and lie without rebuttal or contradiction.โ
January 7
PolitiFact Responds to Meta (Facebook-Instagram-Threads)
Meta ends fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame
Independent fact-checkers say that Mark Zuckerbergโs decision to stop using their work bodes ill for truth online
Via The Washington Post
When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer Prize for its work covering the 2008 presidential campaign, the board praised the nascent outlet for using โprobing reporters and the power of the World Wide Webโ to examine more than 750 political claims, โseparating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.โ
The award felt novel at the time โand really put fact-checking on the map,โ said Bill Adair, who founded PolitiFact in 2007.
โIt was a moment of promise when people really believed that the internet could be a positive force to empower people around the world with the information they need to make decisions about voting in good and powerful ways,โ he said.
It didnโt work out that way. Politicians attacked fact-checking as a partisan infringement on speech. And the internet and social media platforms spurred an ecosystem that prioritized viral content and capturing clicks over the lofty goal of providing accurate information...
โThis is all about politics,โ said Adair, who is now a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University and the author of โBeyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.โ
โThe announcement was intensely political,โ said Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth and longtime scholar of political spin, misinformation and polarization. โIt seems very clearly designed to appeal to Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who might otherwise target Meta with investigations, regulatory enforcement or negative publicity.โ
Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts.
It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.
Meta ends fact checks, will adopt X-style โcommunity notesโ in Trump era
Meta goes โMAGAโ: Facebook adjusts fact-checking approach as Zuckerberg touts โfree expressionโ and cites โcultural tipping pointโ
Via MarketWatch
Metaโs trust and safety and content-moderation teams will be moved out of California, and the companyโs U.S.-based content-review work will be done in Texas. โAs we work to promote free expression, I think that will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams,โ Zuckerberg said.
โFinally, weโre going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,โ he added, pointing to โan ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorshipโ in Europe and โsecret courtsโ in Latin America that can order companies to quietly take things down. โChina has censored our apps from even working in the country,โ he said.
During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday, Trump was asked whether Zuckerberg was directly responding to threats the president-elect made toward him in the past. โProbably,โ he replied.
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The reaction of PolitiFact, an initiative of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) who've led fact-checking in journalism, was to explain basics of getting accurate information to readers and users of online and other publications.
Poynter president Neil Brown explained in a statement that "Meta has always set its own tools and rules, while Poynterโs PolitiFact and Metaโs other fact-checking partners offered independent reviews and showed their sources."
โTo blame fact-checkers is a disappointing cop-out and it perpetuates a misunderstanding of its own program. Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It's time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking.โ
Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, said in a statement, โThis decision will hurt social media users who are looking for accurate, reliable information to make decisions about their everyday lives and interactions with friends and family. Fact-checking journalism has never censored or removed posts; itโs added information and context to controversial claims, and itโs debunked hoax content and conspiracy theories.โ
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2024
A Fact-Checking Professional Who Has, Over the Years, Worked Hard to Put Facts into the Light
- (If you haven't heard of him) -- Here's Daniel Dale @Work
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September 12, 2024
September 10, 2024, Screen Grab from Broadcast Video, Live Presentation ABC
* https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/10/presidential-debate-live-fact-check-harris-trump/
September 11, 2024, the Day After the Debate...
The US Presidential Debate Was One for the History Books
Question: Did the ABC Moderators Intrude?
GreenPolicy360: The moderators and fact-checking orgs were doing their work: Facts count
Disinformation - Online - Dangerous
Fact is, Facts Matter
Wikipedia adds a 'Truthiness' definition of the modern term that's become a meme -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding U.S. politics during the late 20th and early 21st centuries because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion.
GreenPolicy360 continues a multi-year defense of facts, science, & 'critical thinking skills' ... Green Education
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GlobalFact, the Eleventh Global Fact-Checking Summit
Presented by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute in partnership with Zaลกto ne, GlobalFact 11 (June 26-28, 2024) empowers fact-checkers to uphold the industryโs highest standards of excellence through discussions, training and networking events with globally renowned fact-checking experts.
What is GlobalFact?
GlobalFact is the worldโs largest and most impactful annual summit for professional fact-checking.
Fact-checkers and supporters of fact-checking discuss industry-wide challenges, exchange best practices and build collaborative solutions to improve our shared information ecosystem.
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2023
The Poynter Institute
The Tampa Bay Times | Poynter home of fact-checking pioneer, PolitiFact, announced today (Dec. 23) that it is expanding PolitiFact's coverage beginning in January 2024. Good news, especially here 'on the home front', as GreenPolicy360's global network originates in Tampa Bay.
GreenPolicy360 has been following PolitiFact from its initial beginnings (launched in 2007). PolitiFact has changed the national and international news business as their original idea and model of a fact-checking news operation has grown into industry-wide fact checking around the world. It is evident that the need for focus on facts and evidence in these times of dis- and mis-information is an essential contribution by a free press and online fact checking sources that enable accurate judgment, decision-making, and a successful democracy.
The online world is especially convoluted these days... the demands for fact-checking of memes and gaslighting, dis- and mis-info is 24/7/365
We at GreenPolicy360 are pleased to have shared the Poynter PolitiFact story and expansion of its 'best practices' networking model. At the end of last year, 2022, there were 424 fact-checking websites, up from just 11 in 2008, according to an annual census by the Duke University Reportersโ Lab. Poynter's PolitiFact and over 100 news publishing participants in a global fact checking network are confronting/battling an online proliferation of dis/misinformation, lies and political manipulation. Today and going forward, fact-checking operations are playing an increasingly essential role, delivering information, facts, opening eyes and bringing profoundly important veritas to people in every nation, community, market and political system.
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At the end of last year, there were 424 fact-checking websites, up from just 11 in 2008, according to an annual census by the Duke University Reportersโ Lab.
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Political Pushback to Fact Checking Is Rising as Fact Checking Grows
In What Countries Does Facebook (Meta) Provide Fact-Checking Services?
List of independent FB-Instagram/Meta fact-checking partners, by country
Meta Touts Its Fact Checking
Meta
To fight the spread of misinformation and provide people with more reliable information, Meta partners with independent third-party fact-checkers that are certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). We don't think a private company like Meta should be deciding whatโs true or false, which is exactly why we have a global network of fact-checking partners who independently review and rate potential misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Their work enables us to take action and reduce the spread of problematic content across our apps.
Since 2016, our fact-checking program has expanded to include more than 90 organizations working in more than 60 languages globally. The focus of the program is to address viral misinformation โ particularly clear hoaxes that have no basis in fact. Fact-checking partners prioritize provably false claims that are timely, trending and consequential.
Meta's approach to fact-checking
Meta and fact-checkers work together in three ways:
Identify
Fact-checkers can identify hoaxes based on their own reporting, and Meta also surfaces potential misinformation to fact-checkers using signals, such as feedback from our community or similarity detection. Our technology can detect posts that are likely to be misinformation based on various signals, including how people are responding and how fast the content is spreading. We may also send eligible content to fact-checkers when we become aware that it may contain misinformation. During major news events or for trending topics when speed is especially important, we use keyword detection to gather related content in one place, making it easy for fact-checkers to find. For example, weโve used this feature to group content about COVID-19, global elections, natural disasters, conflicts and other events.
Review
Fact-checkers review and rate the accuracy of stories through original reporting, which may include interviewing primary sources, consulting public data and conducting analyses of media, including photos and video.
Fact-checkers do not remove content, accounts or Pages from Facebook. We remove content when it violates our Community Standards, which is separate from our fact-checking program.
Act
Each time a fact-checker rates a piece of content as false, we significantly reduce the contentโs distribution so that fewer people see it. We notify people who previously shared the content or try to share it that the information is false, and apply a warning label that links to the fact-checkerโs article, disproving the claim with original reporting. We also use AI to scale the work of fact-checkers by applying warning labels to duplicates of false claims, and reducing their distribution.
We know this program is working and people find value in the warning screens we apply to content after a fact-checking partner has rated it. We surveyed people who had seen these warning screens on-platform and found that 74% of people thought they saw the right amount or were open to seeing more false information labels, with 63% of people thinking they were applied fairly.
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The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation. We enable fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration. IFCN promotes the excellence of fact-checking to more than 100 organizations worldwide through advocacy, training and global events.
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2022
GlobalFact9
The worldโs largest fact-checking summit
The only conference dedicated to fact-checking worldwide, organized by the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute
The 2022 Global Fact conference in Oslo, Norway convenes in-person after two years of virtual conferences. Previous Global Fact conferences were held in cities such as London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Rome, and Cape Town.
More via Poynter Institute / Poynter.org
- https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/globalfact-9-joan-donovan-jane-lytvynenko-anne-applebaum/
June 20, 2022
OSLO, Norway โ GlobalFact is an annual fact-checking and journalism conference hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network. This year marks the worldโs largest fact-checking summitโs ninth iteration. It will be held in Oslo, Norway, from June 22 to 25, at Oslo Metropolitan University. Virtual tickets are available.
Hereโs more about six of the headliners at this yearโs GlobalFact.
Dr. Joan Donovan is a leading disinformation researcher and research director at Harvard Kennedy Schoolโs Shorenstein Center, which focuses on the intersection of media, politics and public policy. She is also director of the Technology and Social Change Project, โ or TaSC โ which examines methods of media manipulation, control over public conversation and democracy influence. The Shorenstein Center website says TaSC โfacilitates workshops for journalists, policy makers, technologists, and civil society organizations on how to detect, document, and debunk media manipulation campaigns.โ
TaSCโs Media Manipulation Casebook compiles and aggregates information, theory, successful implementations and case studies related to dis- and misinformation. The project is a โteam of interdisciplinary researchers analyzing how contemporary technologies of communication are used by different groups to bring about social change, for better or worse.โ It has examined and documented information warfare of all stripes, including that of the Milk Tea Alliance, the โSave the Childrenโ conspiracy hashtag and coordinated hashtag campaigns targeting elections in Chile.
Donovan is also a columnist at MIT technology review, and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other nationally-recognized publications. She is published in various academic journals, including Nature, Social Media + Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Information, Communication & Society, and Social Studies of Science. Her latest book, โMeme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America,โ describes how the Jan. 6 riots manifested from online communities.
Donovan co-created the beaver emoji and has coined many of the terms used in contemporary disinformation media and research.
Jane Lytvynenko is a researcher at Harvardโs Shorenstein Center and at TaSC.
โIโm focusing on devising a training curriculum for newsrooms and academics, auditing research and digging into media manipulation cases globally,โ Lytvynenko writes of her work.
Lytvynenko was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News, where she broke stories exposing online manipulation campaigns. She has also independently reported for outlets such as The Guardian, VICE, The Atlantic and MIT Tech Review.
As a native Ukrainian, Lytvynenko has written much about the Russia-Ukraine war. In February, when fighting first broke out, Lytvynenko published โI Canโt Stop Watching a Livestream in Kyiv,โ detailing some of the history of the conflict, images of the war and her thoughts while consuming news and watching Reutersโ livestreams of both Kyiv and Maidan.
Lytvynenko has written in Spanish, English and German.
Anne Applebaum is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book, โGulag: A History.โ She has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, previously publishing such books as โRed Famine: Stalinโs War on Ukraineโ and โIron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956.โ Applebaum was a Washington Post columnist for over 15 years and a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw in the late โ80s and early โ90s, during the fall of Polish communism.
Her most recent book, โTwilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism,โ describes a trend among โsome of her contemporariesโ of eschewing liberal ideas of democracy and favoring โstrongman cults, nationalist movements or one-party states.โ
โPeople are not just ideological,โ Applebaum writes. โThey are also practical, pragmatic, opportunist. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents.โ The book describes common patterns between the โpoliticians, journalists, intellectuals, and others who have abandoned democratic idealsโ in favor of โilliberalism.โ
Applebaum has published articles in Polish, Spanish, English, German and French.
Craig Silverman currently investigates, reports and writes for ProPublica. The focus of his writing and research has been primarily online false information and media manipulation.
Silverman won the George Polk Award for his work uncovering how Facebook shows users disinformation. โFacebook Gets Paid,โ โFacebook Fired An Employee who Collected Evidence of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment,โ and โHow Facebook Failed Kenoshaโ are a few in the series that received the Polk. Silverman also won investigation of the year from the Canadian Association of Journalists for his work detailing an international Facebook scam. You can read more about that in โTrap King: How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers.โ
Silverman previously worked at BuzzFeed News, where he served as media editor.
Patricรญa Campos Mello is a decorated Brazilian journalist working at Folha de S. Paulo as a columnist and reporter-at-large. Her work spans broad topics from the Afghanistan war to the Ebola epidemic to the refugee crisis in the Middle East.
In 2019, Mello won the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists for her work uncovering the business deals of a pro-Bolsonaro group promoting the Brazilian president on social media channels, including WhatsApp. In response to her coverage, Mello was threatened on social media and through phone calls. She was doxxed on multiple occasions and forced to hire a bodyguard and cancel public appearances.
โThe attack on Campos Mello was one of the most visible cases of doxing in a year and election cycle in which dozens of journalists were harassed and criticized for their reporting,โ the Committee to Protect Journalists wrote in an article.
Mello has worked as a correspondent across multiple countries and continents.
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Disinformation - Online - Dangerous
Facts Opposed to Disinformation, Misinformation and 'Big Lies'
Facts in a Connected, Internet-Era
Rising up against a barrage of online false, misleading claims
Information volleys, viral conspiracies, the 'dark web' become frontlines in a political war
So please, with me, just close your eyes for just a moment, and imagine the world as it should be. A world of peace, trust, and empathy, bringing out the best that we can be.
Open your eyes. Now go, we have to make it happen. Please, letโs hold the line together. Thank you.
Democracy at Risk
A Year Reviewing Fact Checking Around the World
Bring the Facts, Make a Truthful Case
Online... Searching for the Facts, a Never-ending Story
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Facts Count, a Free Press Matters
"We can't have a democracy as we know it without a free press, and that's why Poynter is so important."
Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida: Independent Journalism in Practice
- "Misinformation has exploded online. Hoaxes go viral on social media after most breaking news events, manipulated videos dupe internet users into sharing them and fake news sites publish fabricated stories and cash in on the traffic."
- Poynter's training for journalists and writers now teaches tools and best practices to identify misinfo....
- "Fact-checking to... check the veracity of images uses tools like RevEye and Googleโs Reverse Image Search, picking apart viral social media videos with InVid and YouTube Dataviewer and assessing social media profiles with Account Analysis and StalkScan."
- With the launch of its PolitiFact project in 2007 the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) led a fact-checking initiative that quickly became a world-wide network. Fact-checking best practice are vital and necessary in an era of dis- and mis-information and daily attacks on facts and science.
Fact Checking and Embedded Links
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Poynter Takes on Full Management of PolitiFact
- The Poynter Institute, home of the International Fact Checking Network, which launched in 2015 as a forum for fact-checkers on all continents, has now expanded its fact-finding services.
- Poynter's International Fact Checking Network monitors trends, research and best practices, with articles on a dedicated channel on poynter.org and a weekly newsletter co-edited with the American Press Institute. The IFCN produced a code of principles for fact-checking; 46 organizations (including PolitiFact) are currently (Feb. 2018) verified signatories of the IFCNโs code, which is a minimum condition for being accepted as a third-party fact-checker by Facebook.
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Launched in 2015, Taking the PolitiFact Model for Fact-Checking and -Finding International
International Fact-Checking Network Code of Principles
Principles Created in 2016
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- https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ | MediaWise for Teens
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Facts or Not on Social Media
Misinformation, Political Messaging, Database-driven Disinformation, Targets Audiences & Online Viral Manipulation, Algorithms & Online Platforms (Facebook/Google-Alphabet/Twitter/etc)
How are independent fact-checkers selected on Facebook? | Facebook Help Center
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Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- Fact-Finding Best Practices in Action
International Fact Checking 360
Always On 24/7/365
International Fact Checking Day 2020
200 Ways to Teach About Fact Checking
Brookings Institute-Tech Policy reports on fact-checking... and readers
April 2020 Update: 237 fact-checkers in nearly 80 countries... and counting
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Global Fact-Checking News / Global Fact-Checking Sites
List in Development...
- https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ | Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News
- https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ | 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)
- https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ | 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)
- http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ | 37 Countries-96 Fact-Check Sites (2016)
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- Techniques of Science Denial
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It's Time for Real-Time Fact Checking
Beginning in 2007 in St. Petersburg, Florida, an independent news organization steps up and starts a fact-checking network. It is called PolitiFact.
Soon a growing movement, PolitiFact acts to change the ways news is reported... a battle of facts vs. 'non-facts', facts vs. dis- and mis-info, conspiracies and viral theories, info ops - and com ops weaponizing online and social media communications.
PolitiFact's tagline is bold and memorable amid the online battle --
Stand up for the facts!
Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
Visit PolitiFact and Fact-Checking Networks.
Do your own fact-checking and fact-finding research.
It's more than Orwellian out there. Aim to discover and be guided by facts...
"TRUTH-O-METER", reporting stories, questioning claims as...
True
Mostly True
Half True
Mostly False
False
Pants on Fire
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On Anti-disinformation Work
Facing a Tide of Dis-info and Mis-info
A President and Legacy of Dis- and Mis-information
At GreenPolicy360 we continue to advocate for science and facts. Fact checking and fact finding increasingly have grown in importance as social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc) can exponentially multiply falsehoods and untruths.
In the era of the Internet, politics is taking on new powers to reach, engage, interact with, convert and motivate targeted audiences with calls to action.
Let us repeat:
Fact checking is essential in a fast changing and evolving Internet ....
Facts are essential for a functional, credible democratic government ....
Washington Post
By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency โ averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.
Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.
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