{"id":2868,"date":"2016-12-06T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:35","slug":"online-fact-checking-a-growing-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/12\/06\/online-fact-checking-a-growing-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Online fact-checking &#8211; a growing trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/UrlBlockedError.aspx\">recent report from the Reuters<\/a> Institute has traced the rise of political fact-checking sites in Europe. It recorded 113 such groups are active today.\u00a0 More than 90% were established since 2010; about 50 launched in the past two years alone.<\/p>\n<p>The recent US election campaigns have raised <a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=YPOKzKHAMtKWd917cyJ4yEEw87Fot0GLLIBojPwOp2XOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.counterpunch.org%2f2016%2f10%2f06%2ftruth-lies-and-conspiracy-in-the-2016-election%2f\">issues of truth in the media<\/a>.\u00a0 This built upon earlier concerns raised by works such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=buXZpjxEVZB8SrsARqLDQ9JctKhgmTVkUX6HTy_C40LOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2ftowcenter.org%2fresearch%2flies-damn-lies-and-viral-content%2f\">Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=buXZpjxEVZB8SrsARqLDQ9JctKhgmTVkUX6HTy_C40LOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2ftowcenter.org%2fresearch%2flies-damn-lies-and-viral-content%2f\">How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors<\/a>, Unverified Claims and Misinformation by Craig Silverman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some resources on fact-checking online.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=KSMgpHtUnGtOBF2iH_vYav-tfTjZXqSfqdwEY0Gnj5DOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fverificationhandbook.com%2f\">Verification Handbook<\/a> <\/strong>Compiled by journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC and more.\u00a0 Offers a\u00a0 guide for journalists to verifying user-generated content during disasters and humanitarian emergencies<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=FPP9_25R_jIVb26Vjcgr1aOonQQQeC8Cs_Zsfe2YpAbOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2ffirstdraftnews.com%2f\">First Draft News<\/a><\/strong> is a new site dedicated to providing free training resources for verifying eyewitness and social media.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=TFw4layImfCA-m04uTFj4JSWyNcYTutBlfTsMuloyUnOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fnews%2ffact-checker%2f\">Washington Post Fact-Checker<\/a><\/strong> fact-checks statements from U.S. political figures and politically-minded news outlets.\u00a0 The fact checker rates these statements on a scale of one to four Pinocchios, with one Pinocchio being the most truthful and four Pinocchios representing an outright lie.<\/li>\n<li>A project of the <a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=KHRQ9GV5A_XAPrvnd81erUgJT3izBJM2JUClHW3cpf3OCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org%2f\">Annenberg Public Policy Center<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=LkYL07dz8nITAcJzpbUmQ7k8HPonTkhDx17QHqhn7iPOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.factcheck.org%2f\">FactCheck.org<\/a><\/strong> is another tool for checking the accuracy behind U.S. politicians\u2019 statements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/email.le.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=bdQhkYLgx8eWCGM9AUQhbgjX6PtoyIbStQVCnLeS1MTOCIf9vx3UCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fsouthasiacheck.org%2f\">South Asia Check<\/a> <\/strong><strong>Panos South Asia<\/strong> \u00a0is a free online resource that verifies statements and claims made by public figures.\u00a0 While the site primarily focuses on fact-checking Nepalese officials, it often covers figures from across South Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from the Reuters Institute has traced the rise of political fact-checking sites in Europe. It recorded 113 such groups are active today.\u00a0 More than 90% were established since 2010; about 50 launched in the past two years alone. The recent US election campaigns have raised issues of truth in the media.\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,303],"tags":[41,61,242,133,95],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","category-us-politics","tag-democracy","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-south-asian","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}