The Sydney Morning Herald / and a fake whale with a number of strange waterway citizenships beached itself in Paris this morning ...
The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model – Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It, by Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews, RAND Corporation
Data Driven Jounalism – “Tweets of Congress is a project collating the daily Twitter output of both houses of the United States Congress, encompassing the accounts of members, political parties, committees and caucuses (around 1,070 accounts in total). There are two components to the project: a backend app for data collection and serialization and a frontend Github-hosted site offering JSON datasets for given days. The App – The backend app, the Congressional Tweet Automator, is a light NodeJS program backed by a Redis data store for tracking tweets and users. The app uses the Twit and Github modules, respectively, for interfacing with the Twitter and Github APIs. There are also some utility functions to track time and the like…”
Might Delaware’s corporate dominance dwindle?
A new book, due out in August: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood–and What That Means for the Rest of Us. By Jean M. Twenge.
Two new studies this week could encourage you to change the way you write and market your fact checks. A study co-authored by Kathleen Hall Jamieson indicates that using videos and humor in fact-checking can be more effective than text-only fact-checking. And research from Columbia University says that people are more likely to believe fake news when they're with other people, rather than alone. (For more fact-checking-related research, see the American Press Institute's collection.)
They didn't give him Pinocchios, but...
"Tempted as we are to give the president Pinocchios for his statement, he seemed to be speaking off the cuff," writes the Pinocchio-awarding Glenn Kessler in The Washington Post. Still, the quote is entirely off base. (And here's a video if you prefer.).
We see what you're doing
there"Tempted as we are to give the president Pinocchios for his statement, he seemed to be speaking off the cuff," writes the Pinocchio-awarding Glenn Kessler in The Washington Post. Still, the quote is entirely off base. (And here's a video if you prefer.).
Scottish fact-checkers The Ferret handed out the worst rating on their scale for the first time to a claim about British trade deals "in the bag." By the way, the rating stands for "For Facts' Sake," no matter what you might think.
The arithmetic of fakery
Mathematical models can help us understand how misinformation goes viral, scientists say. Or if you prefer, here's a non-math way to explain it: “The competition is so harsh that the good stuff cannot bubble to the top.”
Fighting Facebook fakes in Germany
With the German election approaching, POLITICO Europe speaks to Correctiv — freshly verified as an IFCN signatory — about their work as a third-party fact-checker on Facebook. "The results of this experiment, so far, are mixed," the article notes.
Fool me once...
A Maryland man who was fired from his job over a fake story he wrote about Hillary Clinton earlier this year is in trouble again — this time for a fact-less telephone poll foisted upon Maryland voters recently.
Mathematical models can help us understand how misinformation goes viral, scientists say. Or if you prefer, here's a non-math way to explain it: “The competition is so harsh that the good stuff cannot bubble to the top.”
Fighting Facebook fakes in Germany
With the German election approaching, POLITICO Europe speaks to Correctiv — freshly verified as an IFCN signatory — about their work as a third-party fact-checker on Facebook. "The results of this experiment, so far, are mixed," the article notes.
Fool me once...
A Maryland man who was fired from his job over a fake story he wrote about Hillary Clinton earlier this year is in trouble again — this time for a fact-less telephone poll foisted upon Maryland voters recently.
Fact-checkers: Don't worry, be happy
It might have been an annus horribilis for some fact-checkers, but here are a bunch of reasons to be optimistic, says Patrick Worrall in journalism.co.uk.
Fake news, real danger
Though existence of the infamous "Blue Whale" conspiracy has not been proven, the game that encourages teens to harm themselves has placed people in danger, says the San Jose Mercury News.
The fake news chain — in mainstream media
A bogus story about a hotelier who wasn't able to fill an open vacancy because young Italians are too choosy went from local newspaper to national newspaper to the evening news. International Journalism Festival organizer Arianna Ciccone deconstructs the fakery; and a h/t to Espresso journalist Alessandro Gilioli's debunk.
More Global Fact 4 roundups
ICYM the annual fact-checkers' shindig in Madrid, here's a look at what's going on around the world from Africa Check Nigeria editor David Ajikobi, FactsCan founder Dana Wagner, The Washington Post Fact Checker reporter Michelle Lee and Hitofumi Yanai on Yahoo Japan.
12 quick fact-checking links
(1) First Draft, the verification coalition, staffs up. (2) France Info is discontinuing its "Le Vrai du Faux" segment and journalist Antoine Krempf isn't sure whether to thank politicians for five years of material. (3) Who planted fake news in Qatar? (4) The Institute for Government hosted a talk on "Post-truth and what we can do about it." (5) Here are the numbers behind France's president Emmanuel Macron's controversial claim about African maternity rates. (6) Germany has a new fact-checker. (7) Can you tell which of these photos has been doctored? It's harder than it looks! (8) Building trust for fact-checking: Work in progress. (9) Is licensing journalists to fight fake news a bad idea or a good idea? (10) A new Oxford Internet Institute report looks at who is manipulating you on social media. (11) USAFacts releases its "State of the Facts" poll. (12) The Internet Archive TV News Lab launches Face-O-Matic, a Slack alert system for tracking U.S. political leaders.
The Week in Fact-Checking: http://mailchi.mp/poynter/the-week-in-fact-checking-prkjgyrzry-776773