Full Fact said it has published 96
fact checks so far and most concluded that the post in question contained false claims.
Fact checks are intended to expose misleading rhetoric, but now these politicians are using fact checks to mislead voters even more.
Instead, these lawmakers have chosen to hide behind our Pinocchios, falsely claiming that our fact checks showed the AHCA left that aspect of the law untouched.
Facebook announced several new updates to the efforts Facebook is taking to weed out misinformation on its platform, where hoaxes regularly outscale
fact checks.
It accommodates much of what we would have probably
fact checked independently prior to the Facebook deal, and well still sometimes do
fact checks on individual memes on our own, but the question we have to ask is do we want to
fact check a politician instead of a meme?
Both Rappler and Vera Files denied Roque's claim of bias and reiterated their commitment to uphold fairness and non-partisanship in conducting
fact checks.
The site will use
fact checks from Snope and PolitiFact for stories appearing on search results' preview.
Watch below as Truth Teller analyzes Cruz's speech in real time and incorporates
fact checks aggregated by the Tribune and the Post.
The program launched in July and published 136
fact checks by the time the polls closed November 2.
But according to Vera Files president Ellen Tordesillas, their organization has been vetted by the IFCN as non-partisan and fair in conducting its
fact checks.
"As we make
fact checks more visible in Search results, we believe people will have an easier time reviewing and assessing these
fact checks, and making their own informed opinions."
After Facebook, Google has introduced a
fact check tag in Google News to combat fake news, for which social networking sites and search engines have faced a lot of criticism recently.
The Washington Post features its own Fact Checker (wapo .st/INFliqw) in the person of Glenn Kessler, a seasoned reporter who "has covered foreign policy, economic policy, the White House, Congress, politics, airline safety and Wall Street." CNN Politics fields a Reality Check team (cnn.com/specials/politics/2016-realitycheck), and the AP offers AP
Fact Check (apne.ws/lnD4iOF).
