New Era
New Era is a digital magazine on new media that is made by Burcu Kıcık, Muhammet Can Otsay and Yaren Altunkıran for the New Media Project (Digital Journalism) course at Beykent University.
New Era is a digital magazine on new media that is made by Burcu Kıcık, Muhammet Can Otsay and Yaren Altunkıran for the New Media Project (Digital Journalism) course at Beykent University.
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FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a non-profit organization founded in the United States
in December 2003. The purpose of this organization is to expose false
information. It became Facebook's fact-check partner in 2016 to detect
and verify fake news on social media.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact.com is another American non-profit organization. It was
established in August 2007. This website scores the accuracy of what
politicians and other important people say. The platform uses an
accuracy scoring metric called the Truth-O-Meter.
Full Fact
Full Fact is a London-based fact-checking agency. Founded in 2009,
Full Fact became Facebook's fact-checking partner in 2019.
Snopes
Snopes.com, formerly Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a factchecking
site. Founded in the USA in 1994, the company became
Facebook's fact-checking partner in 2019.
Teyit
Teyit.org, founded by Mehmet Atakan Foça in Turkey in 2016, is a factchecking
platform. Claiming to be a non-profit social enterprise,
Teyit.org publishes in Turkish, English and Azerbaijani.
Doğruluk Payı
Established in June 2014, Doğruluk Payı is a fact-checking platform
publishing in Turkey. The platform mainly does fact-checking on political
issues.
Fact-checking tips
Here are some tips on how to factcheck
information:
Check multiple sources: It is important to check multiple sources of
information to get a well-rounded understanding of the topic. Different
sources may present different perspectives or have different biases, so
looking at a variety of sources can help you get a more accurate picture
of what is going on.