Harrison Mantas
Poynter
St. Petersburg, FL, United States
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Lessons learned from a year covering fact-checking
Fact-checkers need more staff, more resources, and help against incredible odds fighting malignant falsehoods → Read More
The CDC’s pregnancy guidance brings vaccine data deficits full term
Its latest advisory on pregnant persons getting vaccinated emphasizes the cost-benefit analysis while it waits for more data → Read More
Let’s review some falsehoods about masks
While debating their usefulness, it’s helpful to remember some of the wilder falsehoods about their utility → Read More
Here are Twitter’s most prolific citizen fact-checkers
Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking platform Birdwatch is improving. Meet the non-journalists fighting misinformation on it. → Read More
Fact-checkers use automation to maximize their impact
This is the June 24 edition of Factually. They’re using it to detect, respond to and understand the spread of online falsehoods → Read More
Election fraud claims proliferate in Germany, Peru and Brazil
This is the June 17 edition of Factually. Some of the claims are eerily similar to those debunked in the United States → Read More
WhatsApp can be a black box of misinformation, but Maldita may have opened a window
Its chatbot allows fact-checkers to organize audience-submitted claims into a searchable database to help detect patterns of misinformation. → Read More
Sen. Mark Warner says he is embarrassed by congressional inaction on tech regulation
During Day 3 of United Facts of America, Warner offered potential amendments to Section 230 to hold tech companies accountable for offline impact. → Read More
Oversight Board upholds Facebook’s Trump ban
The Board gave Facebook a six-month window to come up with a clearer standard for permanently banning users → Read More
Factually: US Fact-checkers pause to explain J&J
It comes less than a month after similar efforts by their European counterparts — This is the Apr. 15, 2021 edition of Factually. → Read More
Factually: India and Georgia look back at COVID-19’s information impact
This is the Apr. 8, 2021 edition of Factually. Two new reports reveal how the local context shaped the infodemic. → Read More
Fact-checkers want a seat at the table in discussions about regulation
This is Mar. 4, 2021 edition of Factually. Fact-checkers They say their expertise is indispensable in crafting any misinformation laws → Read More
Facebook's fact-checking partners in Australia are blocked from posting on their own pages but can still assess content for the platform
Fact-checkers warn that Facebook's media ban will impact the informational ecosystem as Australia starts its COVID-19 vaccination campaign. → Read More
Factually: Twitter, your Birdwatch has problems
This is the Feb. 18, 2021 edition of Factually: More than half of the content in Birdwatch does not include a single source. → Read More
Factually: What will fact-checkers find on Clubhouse?
Live audio and no recording might complicate the work of fact-checkers on this new platform. This is the Feb. 11, 2021 edition of Factually. → Read More
Fact-checkers express initial skepticism about Twitter’s ‘Birdwatch’
Some worry about the potential for abuse, while others argue it minimizes their expertise. → Read More
U.S. fact-checkers expect new debates over policy as Joe Biden prepares to take office
Claims about conspiracy theories will persist, but will no longer be amplified by the White House, fact-checkers said. → Read More
Yesterday’s unprecedented attack on the Capitol was a clear consequence of mis/disinformation
And the fact-checking community collaborated again. Here is our first edition of Factually in 2021 → Read More
A man wearing a buffalo cap proves how far mis/disinformation can go and how dangerous it can be
Fact-checkers and researchers consider the Capitol breach a political event fueled by conspiracy theories and falsehoods → Read More
Will Trump’s example change how politicians handle the truth?
This is the December 17, 2020 edition of Factually, a newsletter written by the International Fact-Checking Network and the American Press Institute. → Read More