Alexios Mantzarlis at the journalism website Poynter.org reported "Conservative websites are far more likely to attack fact-checkers than their liberal counterparts." Something called the Duke Reporters' Lab issued a study of ten "partisan" websites and determined that the conservatives were much more hostile to the fact-checkers, while the liberals were overwhelmingly supportive. Mantzarlis took ten paragraphs to get to the important detail that the study's co-author was a founder of PolitiFact.
" Informing democracy is not enough in an age of rampant lies about elections and public health and climate. Fact-checkers need to be more assertive in getting truthful information to the audience that needs it."
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Google has partnered with the United Nations, World Health Organization, and others in a new global censorship tool that was introduced last Monday, according to LaToya Drake, head of Google News Lab.
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