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The bill would require fact checkers to register with the Michigan Secretary of State and post bonds of at least $1 million. Affected parties could then bring civil actions against the fact checkers, and, if successful, collect damages from the bond amount. Fines could be up to $1,000 a day. House Democratic Leader Donna Lasinski, D-Scio Township, slammed the legislation as an attack on the First Amendment and an effort to perpetuate the falsehood that the election was stolen from former Presid...

As India hunts for COVID-19 resources such as oxygen cylinders and hospital beds, technologists leverage conversational AI — such as Introbot AI and CovidIndResBot — to create an online space for real-time responses with a touch of personability (Subscribe to our Todays Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Utkarsh Roy is on the road to recovery from COVID-19 in his home in Chhattisgarh. He feels exhausted with the constant news of n...

Font Size A third-party fact-checker on Instagram labeled a quote from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on racism in America as “missing context.” The post that was flagged came from Turning Point USAs account. The fact-checker Science Feedback bizarrely warned users to “encourage the general public to wear face masks to reduce the COVID-19 transmission.” It added how “the same information was reviewed by independent fact-checkers in another post.” Science Feedback is a member ...

LETTER | Curbing misinformation by not curtailing information A - LETTER | Malaysia plunged 18 places in the latest ranking of the World Press Freedom Index from 101 to 119 out of 180 countries surveyed, the largest drop of any country in the 2021 edition. This is unfortunate when just a year ago Malaysia made the largest improvement among all countries. The drop was not merely because other countries’ scores are improving relative to Malaysia’s, Malaysia indeed recorded the second-highest ...

Font Size A new study on fake news relied on questionable data and biased sources to blame the problem on the right. It also contained critical errors, leaving the accuracy of the results in question. Research soon to be published in the American Political Science Review claimed that “Republicans end up sharing more fake news than Democrats do,” according to a statement given to PsyPost by the lead researcher, Mathias Osmundsen. He suggested that this may be “because most m...

The Imperative of Fact-Checking In New Media Reportage, By Inyene Ibanga Fact-checking sites and applications abound on the internet for verifying every form of digital content and documents in cyberspace. Despite massive awareness about the evils of fake news, digital technology provides opportunities for the menace to grow. Hence, it is imperative for media organisations and individuals to painstakingly use fact-checking technologies to verify content before they are shared. It is not news th...

A view of the Aman Tower which hosts the Centre of Excellence in Journalism in Karachi. — Dawn/File The Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the Institute of Business Admini­stration and the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, United States, have signed a partnership to train journalists in Pakistan, it emerged on Monday. The five-month project, which aims to build fact-checking skills of journalists in the country, includes both self-directed course...

Absar Alam survives gun attack in Islamabad      Partnership signed for training modules on fact-checking      Pakistan briefly blocks social media amid anti-France rally      Zia Shahid of Khabrain Group passes away in Lahore      11 Taliban arrested in Afghanistan in connection with journalists killing      Legendary human rights activist, journalist I A Rehman passes away      Editor of Sada-e-Lowaghar Waseem Alam reportedly shot dead by unidentified shooters in...

Fact-checking in Brazil. By Philipp Lichterbeck Mural in Rio de Janeiro. The photo shows an empty coffin and is said to have been taken during the coronavirus pandemic at the end of April in the Brazilian city of Manaus. Within a few hours, it spread via Brazil’s social networks and was shared around 12,000 times on Facebook alone. The message behind it: empty coffins are being buried in order to exaggerate the corona crisis. In particular, supporters of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro e...

Illustration by Josh Holinaty, Updated 17:48, Apr. 8, 2021 | Published 14:34, Apr. 7, 2021 A t nineteen, I moved to New York City for my first magazine internship. I was hired as a fact checker, and at the time, I knew little about the practice; it hadn’t yet gained the popularity it now enjoys, with regular headlines about “Fact-Checking the President in Real Time.” I interpreted fact-checking literally: journalists report facts, sometimes they make errors, and fact checkers cle...