An alliance to globally fight misinformation
Online misinformation is a global threat – and it’s growing. Fact checkers around the world play an important role fighting incorrect information posted online by interest groups, authorities and governments. Non-profit US-based Poynter Institute and Google News Initiative announced a yearlong partnership to support the growing fact checking community.
The partnership will serve more than 2,000 fact-checkers from 60 countries, including those from more than 130 fact-checking organizations that adhere to the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter that has adopted a Code of Principles promoting high standards and nonpartisanship.
In the next 12 months, the IFCN will host six fact-checking workshops to promote higher standards for transparency and accountability in journalism through its Code of Principles and best practices among the fact-checking community.
“It is proving more important than ever for people to access accurate information, and sort facts from fiction in their everyday lives,” said Matt Cooke, Head of Google News Lab.
“We are committed to supporting fact-checkers around the world with our resources and this partnership will be an instrumental part of those efforts”, said Baybars Örsek, director of the IFCN and international programming at Poynter.
New fact-checking organizations will also be paired with mentors and experts like Poynter’s faculty to develop skills in fact-checking, media ethics, leadership, media literacy and business sustainability.
“Our goal is to work with these new and existing fact-checking organizations to encourage regional collaboration, capacity building, scalability and sustainability of fact-checking in this ever-increasing environment of mis- and disinformation,” said Örsek.
Fact-checkers will continue to have free access to a software tools bank with social monitoring, verification and visualization technology.
The annual International Fact Checking Day and Global Fact summit are scheduled for June 22-25 in Oslo, Norway.
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