Fact Checking

 

Fact Checking

Searching for the Facts, a Never-ending Story

Facts Count, a Free Press Matters

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

Poynter continues to provides 'best practices' for journalists/news organizations/writers

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.

Poynter Takes on Full Management of PolitiFact from the St. Petersburg-Tampa Bay Times (2018)

The Poynter Institute is also home to the International Fact Checking Network, which launched in 2015 as a forum for fact-checkers on all continents. The IFCN 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 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

• https://www.poynter.org/channels/fact-checking/

• https://www.politifact.com/

• https://www.politifact.com/article/list/

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Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- PolitiFact

International Fact Checking Day 2020 - https://factcheckingday.com/articles/41/2020-international-fact-checking-day

200 Ways to Teach About Fact Checking - https://educheckmap.factcheckingday.com/#/projects

April 2020 Update: 237 fact-checkers in nearly 80 countries … and counting

International Fact Checking Network - https://factcheckingday.com/ - https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/

• https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2016/theres-been-an-explosion-of-international-fact-checkers-but-they-face-big-challenges/

• http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/

• http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/

• http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384

• http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent

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Science Counts, Good Data & Science, a Priority @GreenPolicy360

International Fact Checking Network @Poynter

• 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)

• http://www.politifact.com/ | PolitiFact via Poynter

• http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ | Poynter Fact-Checking News

• https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ | Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News

• https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ | MediaWise for Teens

Poynter and MediaWise announce College Correspondents program to teach fact from fiction online

 

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GreenPolicy360 & Science

GreenPolicy360 & NASA, Science & Data: Measure to Manage

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | 'Then there are the naysayers', 'Merchants of Doubt'
• http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science

Climate Change - NASA

• https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ | Vital Signs

Climate Change - MIT

• https://climateprimer.mit.edu/ | Climate Science, a Primer

Climate Change Metrics

• https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/climate-change-data-green/ | Bloomberg Green Climate Data-Dashboard Intel

Worldometer

• https://www.worldometers.info/ | World Statistics

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