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Thu 21st January 2021 | 09:32 PM With truth famously known as the "first casualty of war," a Norwegian parliamentarian announced Thursday that she is nominating "fact-checkers" for this years Nobel Peace Prize Oslo, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jan, 2021 ) :With truth famously known as the "first casualty of war," a Norwegian parliamentarian announced Thursday that she is nominating "fact-checkers" for this years Nobel Peace Prize. Announcing the nomination on Twitter, Trine...

With truth famously known as the "first casualty of war," a Norwegian parliamentarian announced Thursday that she is nominating "fact-checkers" for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Senator Imee R. Marcos (Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “‘Yong laging daing ng ating administrasyon kung bakit ang fact-checker na ginagamit ng Facebook eh ‘yong dalawang tanyag na media na bumabatikos kay President Duterte sa kada kilos, halos. ‘Yong Rappler at ‘yong Vera Files, bakit itinatag ‘yan bilang gatekeeper, ika nga,” Marcos raised during a hearing of the Senate electoral reforms committee on Wednesday, January 20. (The repeated complaint of our...

10 Trine Skei Grande, a former leader of Norways Liberal Party, pictured in 2019, has nominated the International Fact-Checking Network for the Nobel Peace Prize. OSLO - With truth famously known as the "first casualty of war," a Norwegian parliamentarian announced Thursday that she is nominating "fact-checkers" for this years Nobel Peace Prize. Announcing the nomination on Twitter, Trine Skei Grande, a former leader of Norways Liberal Party, noted that "we live in a t...

"Fact-Checkers" Proposed For Nobel Peace Prize "Fact-Checkers" Proposed For Nobel Peace Prize "This year, I have nominated fact checkers for the Nobel Peace Prize. They need our support," Skei Grande added. Trine Skei Grandeproposed International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) for the famous peace prize. Oslo, Norway: With truth famously known as the "first casualty of war," a Norwegian parliamentarian announced Thursday that she is nominating "fact-checkers" for this years Nobel Peace Prize...

When Glenn Kessler began editing the Washington Post’s Fact Checker in 2011, he described himself in an interview as “someone who tries to cut through the muck for Americans who don’t have time do that”. In the terminal phase of the Trump administration, even for Kessler, there has been more muck than time. The Fact Checker, which is both a blog and a Sunday newspaper column, was conceived to use “false or misleading claims” by public officials (graded on a scale of one to four �...

As the world approaches 100 million cases of COVID-19 and surpasses 2 million deaths from the coronavirus worldwide, the Knight Center at the University of Texas at Austin and UNESCO are announcing an online training initiative to combat the other disease that is further aggravating the pandemic: the “disinfodemic.” The MOOC (massive open online course) “Disinformation & Fact-Checking in Times of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean” will be taught in Spanish, Portuguese and Guar...

The end of the Brexit transition period means new rules will be in place for Scots living in the EU, and for EU citizens residing in Scotland.  Ferret Fact Service looked at changes to rules and how they will affect those looking to move between the European Union.  What is the situation for Scots living in the EU right now? Those who moved to live in an EU country before 1 January 2021 will continue to have broadly similar rights to work, study and use public services in the country they res...

» Misinformation vs. disinformation: What to know about each form of false information, and how to spot them online Misinformation vs. disinformation: What to know about each form of false information, and how to spot them online Meira GebelJan 16, 2021, 03:18 IST Being a critical consumer of the news means understanding and identifying misinformation.NicolasMcComber/Getty Images Misinformation refers to false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact regardless of an intent to d...

Ferret Fact Service looks at what has changed for Scots travelling to the EU after Brexit.