The Week in Fact-Checking: Fables

Quote of the week
“If facts matter, they have to be bruited loud in a way that compels attention and settles the argument: which means on television as well as the web.” — Peter Preston, BBC

Global Fact 3 brings practical proposals
The fact-checking movement is all grown up. With this in mind, participants of the Third Global Fact-Checking Summit agreed to take steps to strengthen the reliability of fact-checking and expand its reach by launching a shared code of principles and an International Fact-Checking Day. The group also shared stories of failure. Catch up with the tweets, the articles on La Nacion and Perfil, the opening remarks, and the growth.

Father’s Day fact-checking fun
Not to name names, but one of the authors of this newsletter was told by her dad that he met her mother after he spotted her swimming. While he was driving a submarine. In the Mississippi River. And raised the periscope so he could hook her by the swimsuit. What “dad facts” do you need to verify? Here are some.

Fact-checking talk shows in Germany
Faktenzoom, a project of journalism students at the University of Cologne, sifted throughfour months of talk shows in Germany. They found 351 fact-checkable statements and presented their findings in one slick website.

Tips for better fact-checking 
It’s a familiar attack theme in almost any election: candidates claiming their opponents skipped out during voting sessions. Ballotpedia’s “Verbatim” fact-check details how to check a candidate’s voting record.

Fact-checking graphics
Univision’s Detector de Mentiras started presenting some of its fact checks in a more visual format. Check it out.

Fact-checking Orlando
Sadly, we know that false claims and misinformation are part of horrific breaking news. Fact-checkers following the largest mass shooting in U.S. history this week took on many of those claims, including gun laws, Islam, and political speeches. MSNBC aired analmost-live fact check immediately after presidential candidate Donald Trump’s speech.

Fact-checking ‘oppo’ ads
The claims in those 15-second political opposition ads are rarely as straightforward as they seem. FactCheck.org tracks down the truth in attack ads from Sen. Randy Forbes — who, by the way, lost his longtime Congressional seat this week in the Virginia primary election.

Quick fact-checking links
(1) Have there been more gun-related deaths in the U.S. than Americans dead in all the country’s wars? (2) Wired Italy looks at the challenges of TV fact-checking. (3) ICYMI: API and Poynter launched a free online courseon fact-checking. (4) El Confidencial fact-checked the debate among prime ministerial hopefuls in Spain. (5) Full Fact has some cool fact-checking videos on Twitter.

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