Suecia deportará a los inmigrantes que han adquirido la ciudadanía sueca pero no han logrado integrarse en la sociedad occidental: #Falso | vía #FastCheckCL
Il fact-checking dell’intervista di Meloni all’Adnkronos. #MeloniBugiarda #factchecking https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/fact-checking-intervista-meloni-adnkronos
Finally, he sought a list of additional #unredacted agency records—including all GEC #grants & #contracts, as well as subgrants, which are particularly sensitive due to risks of #retaliation to subgrantees, who often work in local #journalism, #FactChecking, or pro-#democracy orgs under repressive regimes. It also asked for “all documents mentioning” the #ElectionIntegrity Partnership, a #research collaboration between #academics & #tech that has been a target of the #RightWing.
Robert Sarah: “La mujer es la criatura más bella de la creación y no hay nada más repugnante que un hombre tratando de emularla”: #Falso | vía #FastCheckCL
Can #AI #factChecking teams outperform humans?
#LLM "agents" simulated the demographic and intellectual #diversity of 200 expert fact-checkers (who rated 70 statements based on up to 10 sources).
Agents seemed more consistent and calibrated than humans.
Africa: Press Release - 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards Now Open for Entries: [Africa Check] Entries for the 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards are now open to journalists, journalism students and professional fact-checkers. This is the longest-running awards programme celebrating fact-checking journalism in the African media. In 2024, we received 241 entries from 29 African countries. We expect… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKSvtW #Africa #FactChecking #JournalismAwards #MediaIntegrity #AfricanJournalism
Misinformation buffets Portugal ahead of snap elections https://www.byteseu.com/968820/ #FactChecking #Portugal #PortugueseElection #PortuguesePolitics
Jesse Lee: "The #Time magazine fact check of their Trump interview really is the portrait of a sociopathic, compulsive liar":
https://time.com/7280129/donald-trump-fact-check-2025-interview/
#dishonesty #politics #FactChecking
Report for this week's newsletter on the how "misinformation research" is being politicised https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-politicisation-of-misinformation
Pair with the incomparable expertise, and more forthright headline writing, of Alexios Mantzarlis
"NSF takes Ignorance is Strength approach to misinformation research"
https://fakedup.org/nsf-decides-ignorance-is-strength-on-misinfo-research/
@GreenFire
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#Trump was really hopping...
I think, he only has #russian #talkingpoints and they are in need of #factchecking #ukraianwar #ukraine
“Meta’s recent changes are part of a larger shift by US tech companies to align with conservative leaders, which will have implications for global efforts towards information integrity.”
New #wjds paper by Ned Watt, Silvia Montaña-Niño, and Michelle Riedlinger:
@gimulnautti
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Russian #propaganda talking points by #Trump April 23 2025 #factchecking
In his 23 April 2025 statement about #Ukraine president Donald Trump made nine (!) false or misleading statements
As highlighted below by Dmojavensis, all with sources
Meta's Oversight Board Challenges January Policy Shift on Fact Checking and DEI
#Meta #MetaOversightBoard #ContentModeration #HateSpeech #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #SocialMedia #TechPolicy #CommunityNotes #FactChecking #FreeSpeech #BigTech
“La Casa Blanca confirmó que el dólar dejará de ser la moneda oficial del país”: #Falso | vía #FastCheckCL
Poynter: MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network expands across Europe. “Misinformation spreads online faster than ever these days — and it knows no borders. That’s why MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, continues its global expansion. The TFCN is a group of young people who teach media literacy by debunking viral claims online. […]
I just saw an apparent left-winger post a suave confident quote, then adamantly refuse an obvious and very well documented fact check of said quote. The contortions were a sight to behold.
So, here's the thing. If you hold that one of the defining differences between us and the fascists is that we honor the truth - then accept compelling evidence when you see it.
I blocked. We don't need to lie about awful people to show that they are awful.
#PierrePoilievre and his views about #nazis and #nazism.
No, Pierre. You are wrong. National socialists were as socialist as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.