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    Laura Hazard OwenOctober 9, 2020
    Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers
    “Crowdsourcing is a promising approach for helping to identify misinformation at scale.”
    Bethan JohnOctober 1, 2020
    First Draft analyzed 9,722 fact checks to tell the story of Covid-19 misinformation
    “There isn’t a good origin story for the virus, and so this information vacuum is allowing misinformation to circulate.”
    The New York Times will flag viral misinformation with a new Daily Distortions feature
    Bill Adair and Mark StencelJuly 29, 2020
    A lesson in automated journalism: Bring back the humans
    “We’ve found that artificial Intelligence is smart, but it’s not yet smart enough to make final decisions or avoid the robotic repetition that is an unfortunate trait of, um, robots.”
    Denise-Marie OrdwayJanuary 10, 2020
    “Rated false”: Here’s the most interesting new research on fake news and fact-checking
    Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here they collect the best of 2019, including research into the effectiveness of fact-checking, why people are susceptible to fake news, and the changing volume of misinformation on social media.
    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.”
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