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A fact-checking organization from Kosovo has used the database to increase our depth of understanding of misinformation

Members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development, of which WAN-IFRA is part,  have launched a declaration at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in solidarity with media and journalists in Ukraine. The declaration has already been signed by over 60 organisations.

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...

REVEALED: Facebook’s ‘Independent’ Fact-Checkers Are Political Partisans Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016, the Democratic Party machine, mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnati...

Fact Checker Unmasked: Hillary Clinton Activist   Have you ever posted something conservative at Facebook, only to have some nameless “fact checker” delete it? Who then shake their self-righteous finger at you, accusing you of posting something that goes against their “community standards?” Or at the very least they promote a link to a liberal website to counter what you posted. Maddening, isn’t it? Ah, now we have proof that these fact-checkers are anything but the “non-partisan...

>> congresswoman, sure. we actually dont appoint independent fact-checkers. they go through an independent organization called the independent fact-checking network. that has a rigorous standard for who they allow to service fact-checker. >> greg: what a contrast. remember, while zuckerberg created a company that employs thousands, aoc prevented amazon from employing thousands in the city she represents. zuckerbergs big question is how do i connect people versus how do i look on tv. >> you have ...

The social media site. it is going to use a fact checking network to investigate and label fake posts and link to any article debunking the story. what do you make of this? >> i think its great. long overdue, it should have happened before the election. just to focus on fake news and facebooks responsibility ignores the fact that donald trump is probably the largest distributor of fake news and the danger of him, you know, once he is president, to be tweeting things that arent true. i mean, when...