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Poynter→ The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance gets a global showcase at the Paris Peace Forum
The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance, a collection of 99 fact-checking organizations from over 70 countries that produced over 9,000 COVID-19 fact-checks in 43 different languages, received global recognition from the virtually assembled audience at the thi
Poynter→ ABC, NBC, CBS and Univision reminded us of an important fact: TV can’t be like Twitter
ABC, NBC, CBS and Univision, four major television networks in the United States, sent a clear message to the world last week: Television is not — and cannot be — like Twitter. The broadcast networks have attentive editors and journalists who won
Poynter→ Are we ready for the next wave of misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine?
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. The next disinformation challenge Pfizer’s announcement
Poynter→ FactChat is now stuffed with false claims about ballots
No, neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the military printed non-radioactive isotope watermarks on “official ballots.” No, there wasn’t “ballot stuffing” in Flint, Michigan, and it’s definitely false that truckloads of Trump vot
Poynter→ What does it mean when the media ‘calls’ an election?
Major news networks and the Associated Press have declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. What now? Here’s what we know. What does the media’s “call” of a winner actually mean? The media’s “call” o
Poynter→ Why a lengthy vote count is a fact-checker’s nightmare
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Fighting the vacuum This tweet from Factually’s foundin
Poynter→ U.S fact-checkers debunked at least 10 hoaxes involving Pennsylvania and Florida on Election Day
Fact-checking organizations based in the United States debunked at least 10 claims and photos regarding the electoral process in two states on Election Day. An overview of this work shows that Florida and Pennsylvania were heavily targeted by disinform
Poynter→ What parents of teens should tell them about the state of the 2020 election
Attention parents of America’s teens: As election misinformation continues to run wild on social media, you might be worried about what your kids come in contact with online. That’s fair. You should be. But you know what’s scarier? Having your te
Poynter→ Trump tweeted five times in two hours and was labeled as ‘misleading’ three times
It’s been a tough morning for President Donald Trump on Twitter. Between 10 a.m. and noon Eastern, he tweeted five times and had three of his posts labeled by the social media company as potentially “misleading about an election or other civic
Poynter→ Electronic ballots are effective, fast and used all over the world — so why aren’t they used in the U.S.?
People living in at least 25 countries might be reading the news today that the U.S. still hasn’t elected a president and asking themselves, “Why isn’t the United States using electronic ballots like us?” In those 25 countries, elec
Poynter→ FactChat sent a half million messages in 46 days to fight electoral misinformation in the U.S
More than 500,000 messages were sent to 82,000 people in the last 46 days to help them sort facts from fiction using WhatsApp. The total number of messages shared by FactChat, the chatbot launched by the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter I
Poynter→ Is the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop legit? Here’s how to form your own judgment.
You might have heard — unless you’ve been trying to avoid the news over the past two weeks, which would be understandable — about this big New York Post exclusive story about Hunter Biden’s laptop allegedly containing emails pointing to shady d
Poynter→ 2020 is not like 2016. Here’s what’s different.
Ever since the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump outperformed the polls and defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have been nervous about losing the presidential race, no matter how strong Joe Biden’s leads in the polls have been.Seth Maske
Poynter→ How FactChat members are preparing for Election Day
Lee en español The 12 organizations taking part in this alliance have worked relentlessly to debunk inaccurate claims from both presidential candidates in the 2020 campaign. Trolls, bots and fake accounts have used the democratic freedoms of participa
Poynter→ President Trump is wrong that the law says a winner has to be announced on election night
As Nov. 3 approaches, President Donald Trump has been expressing alarm about ballot counting extending beyond election night. “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd,” Tru
Poynter→ President Trump is wrong that the law says a winner has to be announced on election night
As Nov. 3 approaches, President Donald Trump has been expressing alarm about ballot counting extending beyond election night. “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd,” Tru
Poynter→ President Trump is wrong that the law says a winner has to be announced on election night
As Nov. 3 approaches, President Donald Trump has been expressing alarm about ballot counting extending beyond election night. “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd,” Tru
Poynter→ President Trump is wrong that the law says a winner has to be announced on election night
As Nov. 3 approaches, President Donald Trump has been expressing alarm about ballot counting extending beyond election night. “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd,” Tru
Poynter→ Fact-checkers head to the War Rooms to battle last minute invasion of conspiracy theories
Don’t be surprised if your social media feeds and your messaging apps become filled with conspiracy theories until Nov. 3, the U.S. Election Day. For a group of highly respected fact-checkers this is totally predictable. “Everything indicat
Poynter→ The cynical campaign to turn human error into ballot ‘fraud’
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Planting the seeds of election doubt Humans make mistakes
Poynter→ The press skewered the White House for saying the pandemic is over. Did it actually say that?
If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, it’s that science and politics can be a dangerous brew. The national press jumped on an Oct. 27 White House press release that, by some lights, claimed victory over the coronavirus. The release, under the
Poynter→ How to consume information about ballot errors
Ballot and printing errors are nothing new. In 2018, some voters in Wisconsin received incorrect ballots. In 2016, the Spanish version of ballots in New York City had an error. In 2012, a printing error led to problems with nearly 30,000 absentee ballo
Poynter→ The final presidential debate had fewer interruptions, but more falsehoods
Lee en español IFCN · The final presidential debate had fewer interruptions, but more falsehoods The final debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden started with a warning. The moderator, Kristen Welker, said that the
Poynter→ Fact-checking Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the final presidential debate
The final presidential debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump may have had fewer interruptions, but it wasn’t any more truthful. It was similar to the first debate, in that Trump’s comments needed more fact-check
Poynter→ Disinformation or defamation? Attacks against Trump and Biden resemble those seen in other countries
The Cambridge Dictionary is super clear: “defamation is the action of damaging the reputation of a person or group by saying or writing bad things about them that are not true.” This is exactly what we’re seeing on social media and messaging apps
Poynter→ Faked emails show the power of simple hoaxes
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. It doesn’t have to be complicated Amid all the discussi
Poynter→ Fact-checking false claims about debate moderator Kristen Welker of NBC News
As she prepares to moderate the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker faces unfounded accusations on social media that claim she’s biased toward Democrats. Welker has not donated thousan
Poynter→ The Brazilian Ministry of Science used a generic Shutterstock infographic to present COVID-19 data
At the beginning of his bestseller, “How Charts Lie,” Spanish journalist and designer Alberto Cairo says, “Many charts — tables, graphs, maps, diagrams — that we see everyday through TV, newspapers, social networks, textbooks, or advertising
Poynter→ How to find good information on election night
Election night in America promises to be bewildering, with a torrent of election results coming out for hours on end. What does it all mean? When will we know who the winners are? How can you avoid being conned by partisan misinformation? Here’s a gu
Poynter→ How to find good information on election night
Election night in America promises to be bewildering, with a torrent of election results coming out for hours on end. What does it all mean? When will we know who the winners are? How can you avoid being conned by partisan misinformation? Here’s a gu
Poynter→ How to approach the disinformation, misinformation and uncertainty around election night 2020
With two weeks to go until election day, journalists and voters are preparing for what may be the weirdest election night ever. Misinformation, disinformation and misreporting after the polls close on Nov. 3 pose a legitimate risk to democracy in the U
Poynter→ What we know about claims about Hunter Biden and the Senate GOP report that helped fuel them
Hunter Biden, the youngest son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, has become a familiar name in the 2020 presidential campaign. His ties to Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, have inspired regular attacks from President Donald Trump and hi
Poynter→ Argentina’s new government office is NOT a fact-checker
In early October, Argentina’s Public Defender’s Office announced the creation of a new department whose mission would be to fight the spread of online hate speech and false information. Dubbed Nodio (a combination of the Spanish words for “no”
Poynter→ Donald Trump’s long, false list of things Joe Biden would ban, abolish or destroy
According to President Donald Trump’s storyline, Joe Biden and his allies want to ban or destroy many things that matter to Americans, like health care protections, the Second Amendment and churches. “The radical left is hell bent on destroying
Poynter→ With no TV debates to assess, fact-checkers flagged online falsehoods about sexual abuse and alcohol
Lee en español There were no presidential debates this week, but that doesn’t mean that FactChat‘s members didn’t have plenty of material to work with. Manipulated videos and misleading claims continue to flood social networks, as we
Poynter→ Fact-checking Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s head-to-head town halls
It was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Instead, President Donald Trump refused a virtual debate and followed Joe Biden’s lead of doing a town hall on network television. NBC host Savannah Guthrie started the Trump town hall by trying t
Poynter→ The Catch-22 for journalists in Trump’s pleas for poll-watchers
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Trump’s disinformation triple bank shot The call from P
Poynter→ Without methodology or transparency, Facebook and Twitter become the ‘arbiters of the truth’
It seems like Facebook and Twitter have decided to assume the position they’ve been avoiding for so long. Less than a month from Election Day, both companies finally became arbiters of the truth on the internet. Naive are those who believe this i
Poynter→ No, face masks don’t ‘collect’ the coronavirus
If your time is short The post inaccurately summarizes a CDC report. In reality, the report found a correlation between regular mask wearing and lower COVID-19 transmission. Scientific studies have consistently found that face-mask use is one of the mo