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“If you start fact-checking the news, the primal question you should answer, is who needs such news, why the authors are trying to evoke such emotions rather than others. Although, of course, if a person is sceptical, thinks that, for example, in Lithuania everything is bad, the economy has collapsed, all the people have emigrated, he would probably not check such news, but unequivocally such news are fake, have no basis, only tries to manipulate the facts, hide something,” Jančis ...

NicolasMcComber/Getty Images Misinformation refers to false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact regardless of an intent to deceive. Disinformation is a type of misinformation that is intentionally false and intended to deceive or mislead.  Both misinformation and disinformation involve the sharing of bad or debunked information, with varying intents and purposes.  . Misinformation is everywhere online, and anyone can be vulnerable to it. On so...

A 2019 Clip of AOC Grilling Mark Zuckerberg About Right-Wing Sources Has Now Gone Viral On 1/14/21 at 3:41 PM EST An October 2019 clip of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilling Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg about right-wing news outlets being classified as reputable fact checkers has gone viral on TikTok. The video was shared as a recent prompt, encouraging users to stitch a video with their "all-time favorite moment in politics, no matter the party or the country." The vide...

10 The diet hoax -- that eating high-alkaline foods could beat Covid-19 -- should have died down by now. After all, science experts and fact checkers across the globe had been quick to bust it when it came out. But the fact that the erroneous claim has lingered on social media for nine months attests to the staying power of the "disinfodemic" that accompanies the pandemic. Southeast Asia, in no way immune to the wealth and waves of misinformation spurred by the outbreak of the Sars-CoV-2 in lat...

Projects that demonstrate “clear ways to measure success” and aim to reach groups “disproportionately affected by misinformation” will be prioritized.

The Poynter Institute is a Florida-based journalism organization that runs PolitiFact. On Poynter.org, a daily media report runs by Tom Jones, who sounds like Brian Stelters identically thinking twin. Poynter says it supports "responsible news and fact-based information," but its incessant party line of liberal-media cheerleading and conservative-media loathing really came through when Jones made a list of the "best and worst of news media in 2020." Best national news: "ABCs David Muir, with hi...

Font Size The Poynter Institute is a Florida-based journalism group that runs PolitiFact. On Poynter.org, they run a daily media report by Tom Jones, who sounds like Brian Stelter’s identically thinking twin. They say they support “responsible news and fact-based information,” but their incessant party line of  liberal-media cheerleading and conservative-media loathing really came through when Jones made a list of the “best and worst news media” of 2020. Take a look:  ...

Myanmar grappling with infodemic published : 25 Dec 2020 at 10:24 1 Be it false claims that drinking liquor or ginger juice will repel Covid-19, or that eating leaves of the neem tree will protect one from it, Facebook user Pa Pa has encountered them all in the varied, virulent strains of misinformation thriving around the pandemic in Myanmar. “Claims that eating a certain number of eggs at specific times or that citing a religious mantra can make you fully recove...

https://www.hangthecensors.com/481831.html (Natural News) It turns out that at one of the so-called “fact-checkers” used by Facebook is, in fact, partially funded by the Chinese. Lead Stories, one of Facebook’s most prolific fact-checkers of U.S. content, is actually partially funded by TikTok, a social media platform owned by a Chinese company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). TikTok is currently being investigated by U.S. officials as a possible national security threat...

Fact-checking: A year of infodemic Dec 23, 2020 9:30 AM PHT I debunked the first false claim related to COVID-19. The first published among members of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), at least. On January 14, two weeks after China reported the first COVID-19 case, a false chain message circulated in the Philippines, saying that a case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was reported in a clinic at Shangri-La Plaza, a mall in Mandaluyong City. The disease wasn’t called C...