#Checkers

Larry Sanger

lsanger

1/ Let me "fact-check" the very idea of fact-checking.I have great contempt for fact-checkers. Here's why.When people claim to do a fact-check of some claim, what they purport to do

Urban Mobility

UrbanMobilitySA

BIKE DELIVERIESIt's not just MrD and UberEats that have bike delivery partner programmes. A couple of other companies are opting for bike deliveries and South Africans are missing out. THREAD

Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022

TrumpWarRoom

THREAD: Don Lemon, Chuck Todd, Chris Cuomo, and Kamala Harris all repeated the lie that President Trump called coronavirus a hoax.The lie has been ruled false by 5 independent fact

Calling Bullshit

callin_bull

I just read a *great* paper on digital literacy. The authors explore how three different groups—Stanford students, professional academic historians, and fact checkers—evaluate the reliability of online information. https://papers.ssrn.c

Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022

TrumpWarRoom

THREAD: @DonLemon, Rachel @Maddow, @KristenhCNN, and @DeanObeidallah continue to spread the lie that President Trump called coronavirus a hoax. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝟱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁-𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/13

evelyn douek

evelyndouek

It's almost like Facebook itself doesn't understand -- or is being willfully blind -- to internet culture. I mean, how could exempting things from fact-checking provided they are 'opinion' ever

Donie O'Sullivan

donie

A thread about America and Facebook/ A few months ago I saw this @Acosta interview with Trump supporters and wondered what had made them convinced that masks were useless and

Lauren Delcourt

Mme_Delcourt

Hey @OCDSB, #OCDSBLearnAtHome & @KanataHighlands, looking to encourage connection and interaction b/w students? I have created interactive games in #GoogleSlides with French instructions! #trivia #checkers #snakesandladders #guesswho. I'll sh

Jesse Kathan

JesseKathan

As I'm reporting on accessibility issues, I want to share something a source brought to my attention the other day, which is that many websites aren't accessible to people who

Emma C. Eisenberg

frumpenberg

For @esquire I wrote about the state of fact checking nonfiction books & how we (writers, readers, editors, agents) should all care that it's a deeply unstable and unregulated process

David Wells

DavidWells

Avoid `null` in JavaScriptUse undefined instead. Why?`null` bypasses default function value checkers AND it's typeof is an 'object'.This leads to weird stuff.'undefined' will respect default values set and won't validate

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

Remember when everyone thought the internet was a total joke and that people who used it were total dweebs with nothing better to do than read about dumb stuff?Mannnnnnn, I

Jenn

geekgalgroks

Alright, because maybe if an abled bodied white lady says to do it, you will.I keep retweeting articles and tweets from awesome people in the disability space that boil down

Kat Tenbarge

kattenbarge

The same people who pride themselves on hating journalists tend to make/consume primarily infotainment and refuse to acknowledge what reporting is, because they'd rather pretend they're the same thing Journalism

Lorena del Campo

LorenadelCampo4

@RepMattGaetz @AGWillliamBarr @RandPaul @joanhuffman@SenCharlesPerry @PeteFlores_TX @KelSeliger @JohnCornyn@SenBobHall @SenBryanHughes@loiskolkhorst @RoyceWestTX@SenatorLankford @RepDougCollins @ChuckGrassley @SenRobertNichol @LindseyGraham

Saturn ✨

Saturn_bears

The vast babyyy!!! I may be a Jon kinnie but the vast is just so tasty I cannot give it uphttps://twitter.com/BatDisaster/status/1317860973869518848 Bonus: the territory looks like a small house and