Sentences with phrase «fact checker»

Now Facebook will also show Related Articles including third - party fact checkers before you read an article about a topic that many people are discussing.

CLIMATE scepticism is on the rise, boosted in large part by the hacked emails originating from the «climategate» scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK, and by the carelessness of fact checkers for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In almost every campaign coverage, media claims a role as fact checker of campaign claims and attack ads.

CPS would receive $ 300 million in additional funding in FY18, despite the fact that independent fact checkers say that if Chicago students were treated equally, CPS should receive $ 500 million.

FYI — Jessica Alaimo at the Demcorat and Chronicle in Rochester is a must - read fact checker on all these ads and is very much worth following.

Romney is taking his aggressive style on the chin from fact checkers, who are blowing the whistle on a number of his claims.

If an outside fact checker like Snopes had debunked the original post, that could appear in Related Articles too.

Before speaking about education when he took the podium in the school's cafeteria, Trump took sharp aim at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on foreign policy and defended his repeated assertion that he was opponent of the Iraq War from the start, a claim that has been debunked by fact checkers.

This is clearly a problem that requires careful work, and since then we've done a lot to fight the spread of disinformation on Facebook from working with fact checkers to making it so that we're trying to promote and work with broadly trusted news sources.

The Washington Post Fact Checker gave the Chamber's dire prediction that the Clean Power Plan would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars Four Pinocchios, the rating received for only the most egregious whoppers.

One of my personal heroes in the media industry, Nancy Gibbs, began at TIME magazine as a part - time fact checker in 1985.

The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog awarded «Four Pinocchios» to Rep. Chris Stewart (R - Utah), chair of the House Science Subcommittee on Environment, for a «whopper» of dishonesty: cherry - picking one survey in an attempt to misrepresent the overwhelming view of the... Continue reading →

The Washington Post's Fact Checker says it's withholding opinion on the veracity of the claim.

So unless the Times fact checkers are complete incompetents, GFI Development and the Sydell Group are, contrary to Corey Johnson's denial, closely related.

The creators of award winning web series Fact Checkers Unit talk partnering with NBC, MTV, Samsung and a whole host of celebrities to produce an unusual production.

As UCC noted, Washington Post and PolitiFact fact checkers have criticized politicians for falsely portraying the U.S. Chamber's report as an analysis of the EPA proposal.

The images described by Ms. Fiorina, as has been pointed out by media fact checkers, don't exist.

* Yeah yeah fact checkers, I did claim six weeks initially.

For example, the plague of fake news and abusive social media posts has spawned a new role: the social media news fact checker.

This «fantasy speech» by Joe Oliver and the high likelihood that all political leaders will indulge themselves in a bit of «fact fantasy» suggests to us that there is a need for an «official fact checker» to keep a little bit of honesty in the political debate.

President Trump has said the estate tax hurts farmers and small - business owners trying to pass on their legacies to the next generation, but the Washington Post Fact Checker team pointed out that very few farms or small businesses have to pay the tax anymore.

That «silence» and «was understood» are both wrong and wrong to the point of being lies, but they survived the supposedly rigorous fact checkers because everyone in the New Yorker knows that Pius was one of the bad guys.

But in a society in which many of us get our news from blatantly partisan outlets (if not Jon Stewart's comedic rendition on The Daily Show), these web - based fact checkers — however critically acclaimed — offer limited recourse.

Avid fact checkers have argued that this should be rephrased to state that EU budget ceiling was cut, and that this might not lead to a significant fall in the UK's contributions.

When engaging public audiences, Hellmann encourages scientists «to tell stories that show common ground, rather than just be [ing] fact checkers.»

When an HR person or contracted fact checker finds out you left that job in January 2014, the employer may conclude that you're trying to cover up something.

If you're the nineties and aughts kid, you in a heartbeat can recognize the iconic look, so as soon as Kendall stepped out in something similar, fashion fact checker & everyone born in the 90s knew where this look is from.

Other sites like Snopes acts as an online fact checker to uncover fake news.

Unfortunately for this argument it WAS known, at least to any investor (and NYT fact checker) who looked at the Fitch ratings report or the propspectus.

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Most Fact Checkers are in reality political operations, supported by and for political parties or ideological interest groups — they are not interested in informing the public about the issues they check but only rather in supporting or tearing down the sources of the «fact».

One howler in particular, rewrote history and then persisted for years before one dedicated fact checker, working for free, exposed the fraud about the Hockey Stick Graph.

Since much of this context can be algorithmically generated rather than relying on human fact checkers, the system could scale much more quickly to different languages and locations around the world.

Several fact checkers who work for independent news organizations and partner with Facebook told the Guardian that they feared their relationships with the technology corporation, some of which are paid, have created a conflict of interest, making it harder for the news outlets to scrutinize and criticize Facebook's role in spreading misinformation.

However, Earhardt told non-partisan fact checker PolitiFact that he had confused the «March for Our Lives» rally with an annual event in January bearing a similar name: March for Life.

But now in countries like Italy and Mexico, in anticipation of elections, Facebook has enabled fact checkers to proactively flag things because in some cases they can identify false stories that are spreading before Facebook's own systems.

Normally, Facebook sends fact checkers stories that are being flagged by users and going viral.

The first questionable habit of the liberal Fact Checkers is to nitpick tweets, especially Trump tweets.

Facebook currently works with third - party fact checkers, when a story gets flagged as false it would be shared 80 percent less.

The episode deals with interviewing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the media's responsibility to act as fact checkers and David Lombardo's recent New York Now Trivia Throwdown victory.

June 27, 2016 • In the campaign leading up to the Brexit vote, economist Tim Harford played the role of independent fact checker.

He got a clearance from fact checkers.