March 9, 2020 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories •
by Asma Abidi
How global fact-checking platforms have responded to a tsunami of misleading information....
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January 28, 2020 •
Business Models, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Asma Abidi
Journalists working in this field need to acquire some very special skills....
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September 16, 2019 •
Media Economics, Recent •
by Liga Ozolina
The Riga-based investigative journalism project Re:Baltica has adopted a novel business model. ...
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September 6, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Anya Schiffrin
Fact-checking has come of age. It no longer just debunks false information, but puts pressure on the perpetrators to correct it....
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June 25, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Facebook’s recent announcement that it had entered into a partnership with Agence France Presse (AFP) as its third-party fact-checker in Poland may have led some media-watchers to assume that there are as yet no reliable Polish...
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September 27, 2018 •
Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Juliana Fregoso
Many Mexicans were expecting a Russian disinformation campaign during the recent elections. The country braced itself. Experts and journalists were prepared to detect and fight an invasion of bots, anxiously waiting for the moment when...
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June 1, 2018 •
Comment, Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Mevan Babakar
In the current climate the demand for factchecking is increasing. In recent years, new organisations like WikiTribune have suggested crowdsourcing as an attractive and low-cost way for factchecking to scale. But is it a good idea?...
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April 19, 2018 •
Comment, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Manipulators of public opinion are using false stories to wreak havoc in Eastern Europe. Yet, there are some initiatives which are trying to fight them....
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March 8, 2018 •
Digital News, Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Caroline Lees
Journalists and computer scientists are working to develop automated fact-checking (AFC) to enable large-scale responses to online misinformation, according to a new Factsheet by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)....
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