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From India and South Korea to Croatia and North Macedonia, fact-checking organizations battling an ever-rising tide of misinformation in a major election year are buffeted by legal threats, harassment and funding shortfalls.The IFCN survey said about 72 percent of organizations faced harassment, while many also reported physical and legal threats.

From India and South Korea to Croatia and North Macedonia, fact-checking organizations battling an ever-rising tide of misinformation in a major election year are buffeted by legal threats, harassment and funding shortfalls.

Two massive announcements from Facebook have revealed just how much Facebook has given up all pretense at being fair to conservatives.

THE Election Year. The Year of AI elections. With over 60 countries heading to the polls this year, the world may look a little – or a lot – different by the end of 2024. How are newsrooms managing coverage and the significant challenge to sort fact from fiction?

April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day, a “global initiative recognizing accurate information’s important role in an interconnected world.” The fact-checking and media-ethics kingpins at Poynter are behind the initiative, and they mark the occasion by releasing an annual State of the Fact-Checkers Report, a survey of 137 organizations across at least 69 countries that are devoted to making sure the media is accurate. Below are some of the most interesting findings from 2023’s report.

This commentary was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day 2024, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers…

For two decades, Metamorphosis Foundation has played a prominent role in countering false narratives and leading digital literacy campaigns in North Macedonia, a country where mis- and disinformation run rampant. 

With this partnership, PTI will be allowed to identify, review and rate content as misinformation across Meta platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.

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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Press Trust of India (PTI) has joined Meta's Third Party Fact-Checking Partnership (3PFC) programme to identify, review and rate content as misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. India News | Press Trust of India Joins Meta's Third-party Fact-checking Programme in India.