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Marketplace20d
Is community fact-checking the future of social media moderation?
TikTok recently announced it will launch a user-led fact checking program called Footnotes, similar to the community-led notes on X and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms. Lisa Fazio ...
Psychology Today2d
Think Like a Fact-Checker: The Skill Most People Don’t Use
Most people judge online info by how it looks—but expert fact-checkers do something totally different. Here’s the skill they ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies27d
TikTok to launch its own Community Notes-style fact-checking feature: Footnotes
X launched the first major crowdsourced fact-checking experiment in 2021, originally called Birdwatch and now known as Community Notes. YouTube added its own in 2024, and Meta followed in a ...
Time19d
Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His ‘100 Days’ Interview With TIME
What Trump Said: “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.” The Facts: The US had a trade deficit with the rest of the world of $917.8 billion in 2024, according to the Bureau of Economic ...
Toronto Star17d
Pierre Poilievre was the drama queen and Mark Carney was the wonk. Here’s what else I learned fact checking party leaders for 21 days
I spent three weeks following (in the virtual sense) the campaign speeches of Canada’s national political leaders.
AOL18d
Fact-Checking What Trump Said in His ‘100 Days’ Interview
What Trump Said: “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.” The Facts: The US had a trade deficit with the rest of the world of $917.8 billion in 2024, according to the Bureau of Economic ...