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Historically, the field was considered women's work, and from the time of the first professional American fact-checker through at least the 1970s, the fact-checkers at a media company might be entirely female or primarily so. [128] The number of people employed in fact-checking varies by publication.
HKBU Fact Check (https://factcheck.hkbu.edu.hk/home/): a project by the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. HKBU Fact Check is a signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network's codes of principles. [56] [57] HKBU Fact Check is indexed by Duke Reporter's Lab. [10]
Washington Post Fact Checker; Watchdog (research collective) This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 22:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Copy editors may check facts, but only on an ad hoc basis. When you cite a book, you are relying almost entirely on the author. Book publishers have little incentive to worry about facts since people generally buy books based on the author rather than the publisher. For this reason books are seldom very reliable sources.
When it comes to QAnon, there's one major player behind a majority of the investigations into who's responsible for some of the movement's far-right conspiracy theories. The fact-checking ...
Since November 2014, FactCheck.org has published twenty-eight pages of articles checking the facts on the many 2016 presidential candidates. [18] As of April 2016, the five remaining candidates had dedicated archives to their fact-checked claims. In 2016, FactCheck.org became a fact-checking partner of Facebook. [3] [19]
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".
YouTube using Wikipedia for fact-checking. At the 2018 South by Southwest conference, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made the announcement that YouTube was using Wikipedia to fact check videos which YouTube hosts. [3] [9] [10] [11] No one at YouTube had consulted anyone at Wikipedia about this development, and the news at the time was a surprise. [9]