Propublica’s Politwoops Archive in Peril — Can It Be Saved?
Fact checkers have long relied on ProPublica’s Politwoops to determine the veracity of tweets.
Fact checkers have long relied on ProPublica’s Politwoops to determine the veracity of tweets.
A viral, misleading Facebook post “joked” that Facebook fact-checkers denied evidence that people ever saved bacon grease or aluminum foil.
A reporter and columnist’s findings raised flags over the platform’s plans for CrowdTangle.
A post claiming that the far right social media pundit “won a huge lawsuit against Facebook fact-checkers” ironically exemplifies the objective of the Facebook initiative.
A late-night Trump tweet about shooting protesters was quickly swept into an unrelated dispute about Twitter “fact check” labels.
An account appearing to belong to a Texas woman exhorted her friends to block “Zuckerberg’s bots” on her own page.
A Facebook post claims that half a million Americans “will go bankrupt this year” due to medical bills, and they didn’t “blow their money at a casino in Las Vegas.”
The Twitter account @CCHQPress switched its name and logo to mimic a fact-checking site.
Several Facebook posts claiming that President Trump was fined for diverting donations intended for veterans to his campaign were marked “false” by Facebook.
The platform uses an opaque process to determine which sites have less reach there — and they’re not revealing anything about it.