Factcheck.pro

Developing fact-checking 🔎 / verification suite of tools 🔧, harnessing the power of the crowd ✊. Keeping the press honest! #Madrid 🌍 🇪🇸

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“Comment is free, but facts are sacred.”

— C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921

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Check out @realDonaldTrump's audit! https://t.co/Q0cJyWxBmN #twitteraudit approx 6 million #fake / #bot "followers".

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"... perhaps the most significant digital epidemic facing the media, government ..." - https://t.co/vI8paN8qWW

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"I want to stand up for trustworthy journalism, and I want to stand against deceptive and fake news," - Newmark https://t.co/kWSVYV89qY

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"Despite publishing the contents of the dossier, @BuzzFeed has said that it can not back up the claims contained in it." - @thejournal_ie

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"loathing directed at climate scientists / campaigners seemed incomprehensible until I realised they were fake .." - https://t.co/AYcnu89dAn

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"When appropriate .. retraction, apology, clarification, explanation .. shall be published promptly ..." - See: https://t.co/oaZz3hQKu0 📰🔎✊✅

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"There are hundreds of codes of conduct, charters and statements made by media and professional groups ..." - See: https://t.co/mzb6ZnI71s

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#hackathon ideas 🔧 - text parser to flag #weasel words (“reports of”, “purportedly”, “unverified”, “claims”, “unconfirmed”, “said to have”)

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@Grondwerk, the passive voice is said to be unavoidable, in articles written by most journalists.

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Exactly our line of thinking. Currently experimenting w/ a plugin to quickly analyse articles for passive-voice, keywords & other #redflags. https://t.co/yJTsKH2bvp

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What if ... users had the tools to #quickly annotate, share and spark a fact-checking discussion around this and similar excerpts? #innovate

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https://t.co/vlstFD0Lca 13 years on. So-called #WMD 'evidence' (fabrication), pretext to invade, receives scrutiny. Could this happen again?

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https://t.co/izc5CKYnBO - a busy year ahead with #EU elections #2017. And a busy year for #politics and #fact checkers. "Give us the tools."

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' ... Digital News Initiative, News Impact Summits, Journalism Grants are promoting innovation @ #European level.' - https://t.co/x4bXyALouS

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'Each year, Nieman Lab asks some of the smartest people in journalism what they think is coming in the new year.' - https://t.co/8sW6PgI1ie

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https://t.co/HmQjZFmurg 'How can we use the Internet and social media to create civility and reasoned argument?' - @TEDTalks / @Ghonim

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@sasha_feather, interesting - and you're not the 1st to say it. Keep an eye out of updates & beta plugin. $ for contribution/correction btw?

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@sasha_feather, we're currently taking to consumers about this. What if .. you could help fact check in your field of interest & get credit?

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"Misinformation and. Fact-checking" #excerpt from Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler. (February 2012). Lesson: "Avoid repeating false claims"