Members of fact-checking organizations from around the globe met last week for their first in-person conference in three years, confronting a world awash in baseless claims promoted by politicians and increasingly embraced by receptive audiences.
this week by police in Delhi after he highlighted, in a tweet, derogatory comments made during a debate by a spokesperson for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party about the prophet Muhammad.Representatives of fact-checking organizations also expressed concern about how governments have increasingly sought to influence public opinion by dismissing fact checks or imposing regulations that would limit their impact.
She said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has striven to demonstrate his authenticity — wearing T-shirts and shunning the trappings of power — to effectively counter the “contrived fake world” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. She said his efforts have been especially effective in the West, but less so in countries in Africa and Asia where Russian propaganda has deeper roots and faces less pushback.
Applebaum also praised the hearings by the congressional select committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as “a really interesting example of how to present and convey facts.” She described it as “a giant fact-checking and fact-confirmation operation,” made even more compelling by the committee’s decision to feature mostly testimony by Republicans and former Trump administration officials.
His remarks prompted sharp comments and questions from fact-checkers in India, Pakistan, Georgia, Spain, the United States, the Philippines and Britain.“I have never heard a senior company executive say we are ‘humbled’ and ‘we are on a journey’ except when they know they have done something badly wrong,” asserted, chief executive of Full Fact in Britain. He accused YouTube of framing the question of dishonesty deceptively, as a choice between freedom of expression and taking content down.
Feldman responded that he was expecting “outputs” to result from the “ongoing dialogue” with fact-checkers. “This isn’t a venue that we have participated in the past in a way that has been helpful,” he acknowledged, adding that his presence on the stage was “hopefully indicative of how much commitment we have to do more.”
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