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Checking out a story

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381813) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jul

I wrote about the wildlife carer who fell from a balcony and was awakened by her pet magpie gently tapping on her forehead. It was interesting that in the middle of the article, there was a short paragraph saying that such...

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It's IFCN Day!

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 2 Apr 25

What's the opposite of pranks and fibbing? It's fact checking. To fight misinformation and to promote fact integrity the Poynter Institute established the International Fact-Checking Day. It started in 2016 and the IFCN works with...

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Something I Find Just Too Funny

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3447) • United States 26 Aug 19

People often see something posted as news on Facebook or some other social media, and it makes someone they dislike look stupid or whatever, so in a fit of emotion (and often without fact checking) they re-share it. Later, they...

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Fake News

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21845) • Canada 27 Nov 16

A good friend of mine on Facebook who is a doctor, a smart, educated woman.... but she was fooled by Facebook. She shared a post that was outrageous and I immediately fact checked it and it was an out-right lie. I sent her a PM...

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