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I'm a fact-checker at Snopes, the internet's authority on viral hoaxes. Here's how I tell if news is fake.
My team covers stories like $1 million bounties on Vladimir Putin and "Ukrainian Army Cats." Discer…
Madison Dapcevich
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How to fact check fake news on WhatsApp
In 2018, 29 people were killed in India by mobs after fake messages about alleged child-lifting …
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Fact-checking orgs have called out YouTube for allowing itself to be 'weaponized,' and say the video platform hasn't done enough to combat fake news
In an open letter, the fact-checking groups said YouTube "has so far framed discussions about disin…
Huileng Tan
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Fact Checking Policy
Reporters must be precise with their words, headlines, and URLs. They must understand that words ha…
Business Insider
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India is the first country where YouTube is trying to fact check videos
Just to be clear, the fact checking feature doesn’t flag individual videos — so, videos that c…
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Zuckerberg denied saying he wouldn't fact-check political posts if Trump didn't impose 'heavy-handed regulations,' a new book claims
Peter Thiel told an associate that Zuckerberg, Trump, and Jared Kushner discussed the agreement dur…
Lauren Frias
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How to fact check fake news on Google
The fake news problem is amplified further when it reaches the first page of Google search. Whil…
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Here are the false and misleading claims Trump made in his CPAC speech
In his first major speech since leaving the White House in January, Trump again falsely said he won…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Google brings fact-check label to images in Search
San Francisco, June 23 (IANS) To help users decide whether they should believe what they see, Googl…
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Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook wants to get 4 million Americans voting in 2020 but doubled down on not fact-checking politicians
Mark Zuckerberg said in a USA Today op-ed Facebook has created a new voter information tool, which …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The Most Popular Map Of The World Is Highly Misleading
The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Merca…
Christina Sterbenz
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This AP story shows the problem with 'fact-checking'
When fact-checkers get into these questions, they reinforce the idea that media outlets are putting…
Josh Barro
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Fact-checking the final Trump-Biden debate
This debate was Trump and Biden's last chance to appeal to a broad base of viewers days before the …
Sonam Sheth
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Fox News corrects segments on Biden's nonexistent plan to limit Americans' red-meat consumption to 4 pounds per year
Stories about Biden taking away Americans' burgers dominated conservative media over the weekend, d…
Jake Lahut
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The FEC unanimously rejected Matt Gaetz's complaint accusing Twitter of interfering in the 2020 election by using fact-check labels on Trump's tweets
Gaetz called Twitter the "wet-market of ideas" and said the company was engaging in "domestic elect…
Bryan Metzger
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Popular fact-checking website PolitiFact crashed during Trump's State of the Union
His only fully incorrect statement was about his tax cuts, which he claimed were the biggest in Ame…
Alex Lockie
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Facebook CEO criticizes Twitter for fact-checking Trump
San Francisco, May 28 (IANS) Criticising Twitter for flagging tweets by US President Donald Trump, …