✅Fact Checking

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Fact Checking guidelines

• Wikipedia: How to identify reliable news sources

• Tacoma Community College: Fake news, fact-checking, and bias

• Media Bias Fact Check - Methodology

• News Verification Checklists

• IFCN Network

Commenting guidelines

• Twitter Birdwatch: Note-writing tips

Other fact checkers

• Ground News
• Media Bias Fact Check
• AllSides Media Bias Rating
• Disinfo Database
• The Factual
• Lead Stories
• /r/neutralnews
• VerifyThis
• Twitter Birdwatch

Research on crowdsourced fact checking

• Twitter Birdwatch - Why does Birdwatch allow anyone to write notes, rather than just experts?
• COVID misinfo is the biggest challenge for Twitter's Birdwatch program, data shows
• Factually: Twitter, your Birdwatch has problems
• Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources
• MIT Study: Crowds can wise up to fake news
• MIT News: Want to squelch fake news? Let the readers take charge
• Crowdsourcing the Verification of Fake News and Alternative Facts
• Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds
• 5 Crowdsourced News Platforms Shaping The Future of Journalism and Reporting
• Consilience
• Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution (hn discussion)
• How to identify a scientific fact

Research on automated fact checking

• Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources
• Predicting the Topical Stance and Political Leaning of Media using Tweets
• WikiCheck: An end-to-end open source Automatic Fact-Checking API based on Wikipedia
• Detecting Fake News Over Online Social Media via Domain Reputations and Content Understanding
• SADHAN: Hierarchical Attention Networks to Learn Latent Aspect Embeddings for Fake News Detection
• The Rise and Fall of Fake News sites: A Traffic Analysis
• Intelligent News Aggregator and Validator
• Developing a News Aggregation and Validation System
• Fake News Detection in Social Media using Blockchain
• Fake News Detection using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
• A Framework for Detection and Validation of Fake News via Authorize Source Matching
• Measuring source credibility - part of this research

Automated fact checking potential pitfalls

• Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong
• 30% of Google's Emotions Dataset is Mislabeled
• Facebook: Taking Action Against Scraping for Hire