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Michael J. SocolowOctober 2, 2019

Wriggling out of accountability: Misinformation, evasion, and the informational problem of live TV interviews

The great interrogations of TV news history didn’t happen live. “There’s one option that could be considered by these programs: not inviting guests who will mislead audiences with provably inaccurate information.”

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 29, 2019

Full Fact has been fact-checking Facebook posts for six months. Here’s what they think needs to change

More scale, more transparency, and more help with health-related posts.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 21, 2019

“First-generation fact-checking” is no longer good enough. Here’s what comes next

Plus: Updates from GlobalFact 6 and The Verge’s Facebook content moderation expose No. 2.

“It doesn’t seem like we’re striving to make third-party fact checking more practical for publishers — it seems like we’re striving to make it easier for Facebook”

Matthew Motta, Dominik Stecula, and Kathryn HaglinDecember 6, 2018

“Fake flus!” When it comes to health, battling misinformation requires strategic thinking

Politics isn’t the only place where countering misinformation is tricky business: “The best evidence suggests that a more effective way of dealing with misinformation is not spreading it in the first place. That means avoiding repeating various myths — even if you’re debunking them.”

How getting WhatsApp API access helped this Brazilian team project process 70,000 fact-checking questions

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 28, 2018

CrossCheck launches in Nigeria, with 16 newsrooms working together to fight misinformation

CrossCheck Nigeria builds on what First Draft and its partners learned about misinformation on WhatsApp from the Comprova project in Brazil.

Bill AdairNovember 27, 2018

The red couch experiments: Early lessons in pop-up fact-checking

“People have long mused about live fact-checking on television, but this marked the first in-depth study. It revealed our product could have tremendous appeal — but we need to explain it better to our users.”

Kirsten HanAugust 21, 2018

Line is another chat app rife with spam, scams, and bad information. The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open

Users forward dubious messages to a chatbot; volunteer editors evaluate their credibility; the bot answers back to the user (and anyone wondering in the future).

Shan WangAugust 6, 2018

WhatsApp is a black box of viral misinformation — but in Brazil, 24 newsrooms are teaming up to fact-check it

And unlike previous efforts, WhatsApp is giving the fact-checkers an important tool to reach the public more easily.

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