In fewer than 100 days, voters in the U.K. will decide whether their country should leave the EU. The campaign is already heated: The Sun enlisted the Queen for Brexit (to her dismay); David Cameron, accused of fearmongering, retorted that he supports “Project Fact”. The Remain and Leave campaigns say facts are on their side, but Brits’ knowledge of the EU is the worst in the Union. Where does this leave local fact-checkers?
Fact-checking in the U.S.
Quote of the week
“One of the assumptions behind the fact-checking enterprise is that politicians are susceptible to being shamed: If they lie, you can expose the lie and then they’ll be less likely to repeat it. …But what happens when you’re confronted with a politician who is utterly without shame?” — Paul Waldman in “The Week”
Fact-checking fail
A fake Fox Sports Twitter account reports a fake football story, and sportswriters fall for it. A fake news site reports actor Matthew McConaughey is moving to Virginia Beach, and a TV news reporter asks (far too late): “It’s not true?”
Fact-checking: Not just for politics
A site called NASA Watch fact-checks the space agency’s claim that they invented the cell phone camera. Read it.
Fact-checking is fun!
Comedy show host Samantha Bee talks with Trump supporters at a cocktail party, and her fact-checking assistant collapses from exhaustion. Watch it.
Fact-checking around the world
Fact check of the week from Africa Check
Did a Christian prophet challenge lions to a fight in the Kruger National Park? Nope, says Africa Check. Viral stories are often inaccurate but this one has it all: sensational headline, fake photo, no sources to back it up.
“Fact-checking” infographic of the week
In a worrying trend noted by Mark Stencel last year, politicians are co-opting the term “fact-checking” for their own use. The frame below is from an anti-Kasich ad, but Kasich’s campaign has done it too.
Quick fact-checking news
(1) Africa Check now rates claims from “Correct” to “Incorrect” but also “Unproven” (2) Researchers in China and the U.S. are looking to develop “Hoaxy,” a platform to track online misinformation (3) Chequeado is running an online course in data journalism — a source of income other fact-checkers have considered (4) “The internet is both the world’s best fact-checker and the world’s best bias confirmer,” writes a philosophy professor (5) Are you an expert on fact-checking with a good idea for a freelance article? Pitch it to factchecknet@poynter.org
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