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Columbia Journalism Review55m
Glenn Kessler Believes Fact-Checkers Are Getting Easier to Ignore
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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies18h
Spotting the harmful needles in the haystack: How fact-checkers select what to check
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...
The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.
When 400 fact-checkers from around the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro in June for an annual conference, the mood was tense.
Fact-checking under fire as tech giants cut support amid misinformation surge – Washington Post
After years of exponential growth, political fact-checking was in retreat and under fire. And somehow, even as fact-checking ...
CNET on MSN6d
TikTok Introduces Parental Controls, Fact-Checking and AI Moderation Features
Family Pairing, a feature that allows parents to monitor their teen's TikTok accounts, will now notify parents when their ...
Fact check: Are X's community notes fueling misinformation?
"Community notes" are supposed to provide helpful context to potentially misleading content on X. But they are appearing less ...
TikTok Adds More Safety Tools, Expands Fact-Checking Feature
TikTok is rolling out several new safety features, including a more expansive version of its community notes-style product, ...
Daily Voice on MSN5d
TikTok Launches Fact-Checking Feature To Stop 'Harmful Misinformation': How It Works
TikTok is rolling out a new community notes-style feature that allows some contributors to add written context to the app's ...
Fact-checking ‘Jaws’: Bruce the shark vs. marine biologist Tom ‘The Blowfish’ Hird and what the movies got right and wrong
Expert behind new Shark Week doc separates truth from fiction in the movie series and explains why Jaws 2 is more realistic ...
Fact-checking claims about wealthy people leaving the UK, and US-Ukraine weapons deal
Earlier today it emerged that thousands of Afghans were resettled in the UK under a confidential scheme, set up after a ...