The Week in Fact-Checking is a newsletter about fact-checking and accountability journalism, from Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute's Accountability Project
Happy International Fact-Checking Day!
Today’s a special day for fact-checkers around the world — International Fact-Checking Day! So we’re marking the occasion with a special edition of our newsletter. In only the second year of the holiday, April 2 has gotten recognition from Moscow to the Skokie library and all sorts of calendars and countdown clocks.
Here are some ways to participate today and all year long. Don’t forget to tweet with #FactCheckIt and #FactCheckingDay!
Fact-checking day resources
- Teach your high school students how to fact-check news items about the fictional country of Agritania with this role-playing card game.
- This collection of tip sheets and articles will help you learn to fact-check viral social media video, set up last-minute verification teams and be a more discerning reader of studies.
- Especially for college students: Take this new online short course from Poynter, the American Press Institute and Google to learn more about fact-checking and verification practices.
Fact-checking day fun
- Are we in a post-truth era? We asked people around the world and the answer was overwhelming: Nope. We love the truth.
- Fact-checking doesn’t have to be rocket science. Here are seven tips for verifying online information, as told in a cartoon.
- Test your fact-checking knowledge with this quiz.
Fact-checking day in the news
- PolitiFact editor Angie Holan and Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the International Fact Checking Network, talk with "Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter about International Fact-Checking Day and the impact of fact-checking. Listen to the episode.
- Check USA Today’s opinion page today for some sobering thoughts by Jane Elizabeth, accountability journalism director at the American Press Institute, on why this year’s International Fact-Checking Day is different.
- The IFCN’s Dulce Ramos spoke with El Universal about the misinformation problem and the purpose of International Fact-Checking Day.
Even more fact-checking
- Here’s a collection of TED Talks about facts and fact-finding
- Catch up on the latest fact-checking and misinformation research.
- Watch a series of fact-checking tutorials on YouTube.
- Here’s a reading list about fact-checking and misinformation.
Until Thursday,
