#FactCheckers

NO ONE HIRES 100 LAWYERS IF THEY ARE INNOCENT

When History can get you canceled. During Hitler's defunding of the police; he also shut down all media outlets that were not following his ideologies. This puzzle is nearly finished.

Peter Cunliffe-Jones

This great (& painstaking) factcheck by @dpfunke of a Covid-related FB post has me wondering how we best tackle harmful conspiracy theories like this. Makes me wonder if tackling them

Working paper alert!"Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds"We find that 10 laypeople rating just headlines match performance of professional fact-checkers researching full articles- using set of URLs flagged

1/20: Giving people false hopes while leaving the population in a permanent state of fear creates the best possible condition to implement fundamental changes in social and political structures. Knowing

1. Facebook is lying about its fact-checking program and its approach to climate disinformation.This gets a bit into the weeds but its worth it because Facebook is trying to use

"What does the research say?"When people repeatedly ask this it seems they are asking "What are the facts?". But shouldn't they also ask:* Who paid for the research?* Who performed

ThreadAfter last night’s debate, I thought it was time to fact check the factcheckers.There were a lot of bad claims - and more “facts” that went unchecked. I dive into

Alt News says 'Mohammad Zubair has been at forefront of fighting fake narratives'.Let's Fact Check It.A thread on Fake News spread by @zoo_bear.Decide yourself if he's a Fact Checker or