Sentences with phrase «fact checker in»

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

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Currently in production on its third season, the show will now be postponed to make some changes ordered by PBS and WNET, including hiring an additional researcher / fact checker and employing an independent genealogist to review episodes for accuracy.

On Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to deal with the proliferation of fake news: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in people's News Feeds.

Then, Fortune's Ben Geier pokes holes in Donald Trump's economic policy speech and advises the presidential hopeful to hire a fact - checker.

«If Facebook continues to grow as a trusted news source in its own right,» Salmon argues, «then the result could be an existential crisis for news organizations with old - fashioned things like editors and fact - checkers and clear ethical guidelines.»

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.

It has used third - party fact - checkers to identify them, and then given such stories less prominence in the Facebook News Feed when people share links to them.

It tells good stories at a fast clip in limpid prose, with input from a dream team of fact - checkers including Yale law scholar Akhil Amar and Princeton historian James McPherson.

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.

The book first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker and years later, writes Ben Yagoda in Slate, the fact checker reported that «he had never seen such an accurate account and that whatever the fiction veneer, In Cold Blood was a scrupulous non-fiction report.&raquin the New Yorker and years later, writes Ben Yagoda in Slate, the fact checker reported that «he had never seen such an accurate account and that whatever the fiction veneer, In Cold Blood was a scrupulous non-fiction report.&raquin Slate, the fact checker reported that «he had never seen such an accurate account and that whatever the fiction veneer, In Cold Blood was a scrupulous non-fiction report.&raquIn Cold Blood was a scrupulous non-fiction report.»

Many in media love to use «fact - checkers» in articles.Unless of course the result contradicts their narrative.

From there, a group of fact - checkers — from groups like Snopes, ABC News, the Poynter Institute — will determine if the story is, in - fact, untrue.

Pam Shime is an excellent researcher and fact - checker, as well as an all - around innovative thinker, and I benefited greatly from her insights into how to distribute this work in all of its incarnations.

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.

The plan would also require digital platforms to maintain a public file of political ads in order to make sure fact - checkers have access to them and make reasonable efforts to ensure foreign entities aren't purchasing the ads.

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.

The ABC encourages Truth in advertising through initiatives such as «Fact Checker»

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.

It is no coincidence that fact - checkers became a central part of the political conversation in this last election.

Almost all of the errors identified were minor, and although our fact - checkers found an average of about four generally trivial errors per Wikipedia entry, they identified about three in the Encyclopaedia Britannica versions.

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.

But the further along you get in the process — the closer you get to being hired — the more likely it becomes that your CV will find its way to a fact checker.

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.

A key issue in the Will case was the apparent failure of fact checkers and editors to catch what should have been obvious errors.

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

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Apparently, the NYT fact - checker is unfamiliar with the Podgursky study — and the fact that school begins in September and ends in early June.

Have students work in pairs to determine whether the stories are fact or fiction — without using a fact - checker.

The Washington Post's «fact checker» reported on Sunday that he had tabulated 2,140 «false or misleading claims» made by Trump himself during his first 365 days in office.

In an effort to help reporters and others debunk many of the myths about the Common Core, the Collaborative for Student Success maintains a Fact Checker website.

In fact, it's essential that you are not seen as the keeper or checker of meaning.

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.

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.

Indeed, 855 districts» budgets are in limbo and many districts are in jeopardy because Governor Rauner refuses to acknowledge that his politically motivated claims about a CPS bailout are categorically false, as proven time and again by independent fact checkers.

Another new feature that should appeal to the fact - checker in all of us is the Inline Footnotes tool.

You apparently also missed the failure of the «layers and layers of fact checkers» in some of the recent plagiarism scandals, too.

This development followed just two months after Snopes.com, a fact - checker website, uncovered a student «loan cancellation» scam in November of 2016.

Bunny fact checker is the first step in the adoption process.

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

«Controversial shock jock Alan Jones has been ordered to undergo «factual accuracy» training, and to use fact - checkers, in another damaging blow to his credibility.»

Snopes.com, confirming its transformation from debunker of urban myths to just another political hack «fact checker,» cites some speculative comments made in 1930 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius to conclude, «In essence, the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate had already been firmly established by the early 20th century.&raquin 1930 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius to conclude, «In essence, the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate had already been firmly established by the early 20th century.&raquIn essence, the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate had already been firmly established by the early 20th century.»

And in case you are of a generous nature and inclined to forgive previous false alarms, it's worth noting that the National Mining Association campaign earned the maximum four Pinocchios from the Washington Post fact - checker — meaning, it's a pack of lies.

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&raqFact 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&raqfact».

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.

In their study, participants were shown «fake news» headlines that were sometimes accompanied by warnings that they were false («disputed by independent fact checkers»).

If Will's columns had indeed been properly fact - checked, the fact - checkers would have drawn attention to other errors in his columns.

The Volokh Conspiracy's Randy Barnett, who argued Raich's side before the Court, writes that he recently discussed the case with fact - checkers from The New York Times as they prepared Jeffrey Rosen's magazine story on the Constitution in exile.

The Court's reduction of the punitive damages award from $ 100,000 to $ 15,000 could be taken, without too much reading between the lines, as some indication that some members of the court were somewhat skeptical --(I'm bowing to the spelling checker and not typing «sceptical», regardless of the homononym) of the merits of the claim that plaintiff was, in fact, misled.