On the occasion of World #FactChecking Day (April 2nd), DW Comms published this post on how and why Germany's international broadcaster is fighting #disinformation:
Deutsche Welle · International Fact-Checking Day: DW counters disinformation
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The Commission’s plan to rescue European fact-checkers: Europe's #factchecking network has urged #Meta to avoid repeating the mistakes made by #X on community notes. https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/the-commissions-plan-to-rescue-european-fact-checkers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
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Fact-checkers face intimidation in Eastern Europe as USAID cuts embolden authoritarian tactics https://www.byteseu.com/886833/ #CenterForResearch #Europe #FactChecking #IFCN #InternationalFactCheckingDay #InternationalFactCheckingNetwork #Istinomer #PresidentDonaldTrump #Serbia #TransparencyAndAccountability #usaid
TODAY: Reading : Five times Facebook’s fact-checking went wrong
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/07/five-times-facebooks-fact-checkers-wrong
(Telegraph, 7th January)
ALSO: The comments make it clear that #FactChecking is widely perceived by the readership as
- politically motivated & leftist/woke
- a tool of censorship/bullying, aligned against free speech
- driven by finances (i.e. who pays Fact Checkers)
- biased in *what* is fact-checked, if not the actual fact-checks
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow on youtube
“No olvidar que Maximiliano Lobos es el jefe de campaña de Johannes Kaiser”: #Falso | vía #FastCheckCL
Fast Check 🔍 · “No olvidar que Maximiliano Lobos es el jefe de campaña de Johannes Kaiser”: #Falso
Online #ContentModeration: What works, and what people want | MIT Sloan https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/online-content-moderation-what-works-and-what-people-want ““Contrary to recent claims from many political elites, the main problem with professional #factchecking is not bias or overreach,” he added. “The problem is that professional fact checkers can’t keep up with the vast scale of content posted every day” #misinformation
MIT SloanOnline content moderation: What works, and what people want | MIT Sloan
#GarysEconomics on 
on #QuestionTime with #analysis and #FactChecking from #CurtisDaly and #SarahDallal from #TurnLeft
#press #news
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Trump chce odebrać Panamie kontrolę nad Kanałem Panamskim. Efekt może być zaskakujący
OKO.press · Trump chce odebrać Panamie kontrolę nad Kanałem Panamskim. Efekt może być zaskakujący
Trump chce odebrać Panamie kontrolę nad Kanałem Panamskim. Efekt może być zaskakujący
OKO.press · Trump chce odebrać Panamie kontrolę nad Kanałem Panamskim. Efekt może być zaskakujący
Wie stoppt man Lügen, bevor sie sich ausbreiten? Die Redaktion von #Faktenfuchs setzt auf Faktenchecks und Prebunking. Welche Falschbehauptungen sich immer wiederholen – und wie man sie entkräftet.
https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/das-geheimnis-guter-faktenchecks-84295/
Wissenschaftskommunikation.deDas Geheimnis guter Faktenchecks460 Millionen öffentliche Quellen werden täglich gescannt. Das Team von BR24 #Faktenfuchs spürt gezielt Desinformation auf und schreibt Faktenchecks. Sophie Rohrmeier verrät, was es mit dem Truth Sandwich auf sich hat und wie sich Lügen eindämmen lassen, bevor sie sich weit verbreiten. Hatten Sie in den vergangenen Wochen rund um die Bundestagswahl besonders viel zu […]
Fact-Checking Toolset for Claude (or a start towards what "SIFT with AI" might look like) https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/fact-checking-toolset-for-claude #AI #FactChecking
Fact-Checking Toolset for Claude (or a start towards what "SIFT with AI" might look like) https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/fact-checking-toolset-for-claude #AI #FactChecking
Marches contre le racisme : non, les manifestants n'ont pas crié "à bas l'État, les juifs et les fachos" à Nice.
France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · VÉRIFICATION. Marches contre le racisme : non, les manifestants n'ont pas crié "à bas l'État, les juifs et les
Evelyn Matthei: “Me preocupa un gobierno de Johannes Kaiser porque yo quiero que Chile siga siendo una democracia”: #Falso | vía #FastCheckCL
Fast Check 🔍 · Evelyn Matthei: “Me preocupa un gobierno de Johannes Kaiser porque yo quiero que Chile siga siendo u ...
(Video) “El presidente ucraniano, Zelensky, dice que lamenta lo ocurrido en la Casa Blanca, pide disculpas a Trump y llama a fortalecer las relaciones con Estados Unidos”: #Impreciso | vía #FastCheckCL
Fast Check 🔍 · (Video) “El presidente ucraniano, Zelensky, dice que lamenta lo ocurrido en la Casa Blanca, pide dis ...
Fact check: Can Canada apply to join the EU? https://www.byteseu.com/845865/ #Canada #Cyprus #EUEnlargement #EuropeanUnion #FactChecking #Turkiye(Turkey)
I saw the "sensational" news about #grok - all it's shocking facts about politicians and businessmen.
Instead of using LLMs for fact checking, use a magic 8 ball. You'll save a lot of water and energy.
#ai #llms #factchecking #misinformation #twitter #elonmusk #climatechange
Instead of using LLMs for fact checking, use a magic 8 ball. You'll save a lot of water and energy.
#ai #llms #factchecking #misinformation #twitter #elonmusk #climatechange
