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Fact check: the BBC Scottish leaders debate Your Email (required) Or The leaders of Scotland’s main political parties took part in the first televised debate ahead of the 2021 Scottish Parliament election on 6 May. The debate involved First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, new Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, and the Scottish Greens’ co-leader Lorna Slater. The debate, broadcast by the BBC, took in many...

January 12, 2021Google announced the open fund in mid-January. Google’s news and information credibility lead, Alexios Mantzarlis, said they received more than 300 applications from 74 countries in the three-week application window. The scope of the winning projects is pretty remarkable. The audiences targeted include a range from Catholics to Pekeño 77 fans, the elderly to 18- to 26-year-olds, people with disabilities in Spain to wet market workers in Indonesia. Mantzarlis served as directo...

An image circulating on social media purports to show an Instagram post about the Tiananmen Square massacre being fact-checked by the "Chinese government". The claim is false; a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, said the Chinese Communist Party is not part of its third-party fact-checking programme. Both Facebook and Instagram are blocked in mainland China.

Tsikhanouskaya, Navalny Among More Than 300 Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize March 01, 2021 18:28 GMT Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Russian anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny (composite file photo) Share share Print The Norwegian Nobel Committee says it has received 329 nominations for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The Oslo-based organization said that it was the third-highest number of candidates ever. The record of 376 candidates was reached in 2016. This years...

Osaka – Fact-checking or political propaganda? That’s the question being asked in Osaka after Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka), the local political group affiliated with the national party Nippon Ishin no Kai, announced it has set up a new Twitter account to monitor coronavirus-related information online. Concerned about a rise in what they said was false or misleading statements on social media about the local response to the coronavirus, Osaka Ishin launched Fact Checker, a new Twitter acco...

Turkey’s information tsar Fahrettin Altun’s announcement of a “next-generation application” to combat “false facts” raised fears of further control over social media.

Instagram, owned by Facebook, censored the article written in this space last week about Dolly Parton’s Super Bowl ad that encouraged Americans to use their passions and talents for a side job. When Instagram’s “fact-checker” offered an explanation for the blocked content, it was deemed “false” because — wait for it — Mel Gibson had not said Hollywood “is an institutionalized pedophile ring.” No, that’s not a typographical error. That’...

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Nobel Peace Prize 2021 Nominees List—Stacey Abrams, Jared Kushner Among Those Nominated On 2/4/21 at 7:55 AM EST Only 107 individuals and 24 organization can claim to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Plenty more are in the running for the 2021 award, but only one will be named winner. The Norwegian Nobel Committee (NNC), a five member panel that decides who wins, does not comment on nominations. However some choose to reveal their picks. Nominations for 2021s award have been trickling out ahea...

4th February 2021 The threat of misinformation is being felt across the world like never before – undermining democracy and causing people to risk their lives by refusing a Covid-19 vaccine. But with every new challenge comes new challengers: meet five social ventures finding novel ways to help the truth spread faster than lies. THIS IS SUBSCRIBER ONLY CONTENT    To access this article, plus hundreds more hidden gems in our Impact Library, youll need to log in to your Pioneers Post accou...