Global Fact-checking Summit, London:

 

This week’s Fact-checking Summit, building an International Assn of Fact-Checkers– SO Helpful!! I Love the whistle-blowing, finger-pointing, Mammy Yokum alert names-! 🙂
Pants on fire! 4 Pinocchios! Insane Whopper!
note to self: Bookmark this page!!

Just another Bias? Nope.
From academics: early 2008 & 2012 US election research shows
95% agreement, btw  Fact Checker, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org. See–

• Michelle Amazeen, Asst Prof, Rider University.
• Bill Adair, PolitiFact founder, now Duke U Prof,
  on global rise of fact checking.

From the Washington Post, 13 June 2014:

The global boom in political fact checking

Here’s a quick list I pulled out. See the Video links & Share!! Please Comment & Add Your Favorites:  🙂

• FactCheck.org, US started in 2003, U Penn’s
  Annenberg Public Policy Center.
• PolitiFact, US  Tampa Bay Times, since 2007. Pants on fire!  comes from them. 🙂
• Fact Checker, US Washington Post, since 2007.
•  FullFact, UK, fact checks media & politicians —
  & newspapers corrections!
• StopFake, Ukraine,  puncturing myths &,exposing Russian propaganda in social media.
• AfricaCheck, South Africa, & a guide for identifying fakes and hoaxes online, welcome contributions from readers
• FactCheckEU, Belgium, monitors European parliamentarian statements , welcome contributions from readers.
• Chequeado, Argentina , enlists crowd-sourcing, &  its own statistics database, since government data is suspect.
  See their cool Video (Click on “CC” for subtitles.)
• ABC Fact Check, Australia, appears regularly on the Australian version of PBS. (example video)
• La Pagella Politica, Italy, has a Friday evening show,
  with 1 million viewers.
• Fact Check Georgia, Georgia, TV spots: (translated)–see  “I am breathing & as you can see, perfectly alive!“
• MorsiMeter, Egypt, a bold effort to track Morsi’s 64 “first 100 days” promises (got 10 of 64), now-ousted.
• RouhaniMeter, Iran, tracked campaign promises of former president Hassan Rouhani.

No mention of John Stewart’s Daily Show or Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Report, Honorable Mentions from me. 🙂

 

 

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