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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.”

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

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