What can researchers find among the 32 million URLs Facebook just released to Social Science One?
Social Science One, the non-profit commission launched in 2018 to establish concrete partnerships between academics…
October 11, 2019
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Canadian fact-checkers are pleasantly surprised by the small amount of false electoral content
Canadians will elect a new Parliament in two weeks. The incumbent Liberals, led by Prime…
October 7, 2019
Mongolia’s journalists won’t get left behind on the worldwide trend of fact-checking
Nestled between the borders of Russia and China — two nations internationally notorious for their…
October 2, 2019
Hoaxes about Greta Thunberg go after her family, image and activism. But why?
Like a tsunami following an earthquake, waves of misinformation, conspiracy theories and hoaxes have come…
September 30, 2019
WhatsApp efforts to curb misinformation aren’t entirely effective, research shows
Limiting the number of forwards a single message can have on WhatsApp might not be…
September 27, 2019
These fact-checkers are working to bring truth back to war-torn Syria — but they need help
There are 6.6 million people displaced internally within Syria. There are 5.6 million refugees in…
September 24, 2019
Misinformation researcher awarded for article on the roots of fact-checkingÂ
Lucas Graves, a misinformation researcher based at the University of Washington—Madison, has won the 2019…
September 16, 2019
A fact-checker predicted which hoax would resurface — and beat it by an hour
Maarten Schenk has studied fake news and hoaxes so exactingly that he managed to predict…
September 12, 2019
Podcasts are hard work but worth it, say fact-checkers who’ve produced them
It doesn’t matter that podcasts about misinformation take a tremendous amount of time to craft.…
September 9, 2019
Argentina is boiling up — again — and facts there aren’t easy to find
Argentina is a country globally known for its wine, beautiful glacial landscapes, and, in recent…
September 4, 2019
How big is the Chinese misinformation machine? Facebook and Twitter decided to act against it
Measuring the size and impact of the Chinese misinformation machine is no easy task. But…
August 20, 2019
Thailand builds a ‘Fake News Center,’ Oman trains officials to react to hoaxes and the U.K. is teaching children how to spot misinformation
The will to limit the spread of false information has inspired Thailand to announce a…
August 14, 2019
Fact-checkers personally targeted by partisan attacks
Darko Brkan was still living in his parents’ house when he read an article that…
August 8, 2019
Why is fake news so prevalent? Researchers offer some answers
There’s no doubt that the world of fact-checking has experienced a boom over the last…
August 7, 2019
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