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'''Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida: Independent Journalism in Practice'''
'''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....
:''"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."''


"Fact-checking to... check the veracity of images using tools like RevEye and Google’s Reverse Image Search, pick apart viral social media videos with InVid and YouTube Dataviewer and assess social media profiles with Account Analysis and StalkScan."
:Poynter's training for journalists and writers now teaches tools and best practices to identify misinfo....


:''"Fact-checking to... check the veracity of images using tools like RevEye and Google’s Reverse Image Search, pick apart viral social media videos with InVid and YouTube Dataviewer and assess social media profiles with Account Analysis and StalkScan."''


:With the launch of its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact PolitiFact project in 2007] the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) has 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.
 
:With the launch of its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact 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.




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[https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/poynter-expands-fact-checking-franchise-by-acquiring-politifact-com/ <big>'''Poynter Takes on Full Management of PolitiFact'''</big>]  
[https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/poynter-expands-fact-checking-franchise-by-acquiring-politifact-com/ <big>'''Poynter Takes on Full Management of PolitiFact'''</big>]  


News from the St. Petersburg-Tampa Bay Times
: 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.  
 
: 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 contnued to expand its fact-finding services.  


: The Internation Fact Checking Network staff 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 [https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/ IFCN’s code], which is a minimum condition for being accepted as a third-party fact-checker by Facebook.
: 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 [https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/ IFCN’s code], which is a minimum condition for being accepted as a third-party fact-checker by Facebook.




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<big>'''Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- PolitiFact, Best Practices in Action'''''</big>
<big>'''Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- Fact-Finding Best Practices in Action'''''</big>




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200 Ways to Teach About Fact Checking
'''200 Ways to Teach About Fact Checking'''


* https://educheckmap.factcheckingday.com/#/projects
* https://educheckmap.factcheckingday.com/#/projects
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<big>'''International Fact Checking Network'''</big>
<big><big>'''International Fact Checking Network'''</big></big>
   
   
* https://factcheckingday.com/ - https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
* https://factcheckingday.com/ - https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/

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Fact Checking

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

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 using tools like RevEye and Google’s Reverse Image Search, pick apart viral social media videos with InVid and YouTube Dataviewer and assess 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 IFCN’s code, which is a minimum condition for being accepted as a third-party fact-checker by Facebook.


PolitiFact's First Decade

PolitiFact Process-Methodology


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Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- Fact-Finding Best Practices in Action


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


International Fact Checking Network


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Global Fact-Checking News / Global Fact-Checking Sites



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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 this powerful, fast changing and evolving Internet ....


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Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.


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