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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-28T13:14:53Z

Greta Miravalle:

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| AllSides || Subscriptions and services for the 23%, advertising for the 4%, client services for the 72%. The data refer to 2022 || AllSides maintains a multi-partisan perspective on facts, reflecting the political views' diversity of its funders (https://www.allsides.com/blog/is-allsides-biased-about-biases-partners-owner-funding). || AllSides works with Harvard University, Brave Software and USA Today among the others listed on their websites as clients.
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|Ad Fontes Media || Ad Fontes Media is financed through the sale of services and products, but also raised money through Crowdfounding. They received support from the Glen Nelson's Center Horizon Fund (which finances start-ups) and from Gaingels (https://adfontesmedia.com/about-ad-fontes-media/). || Biases are present in the chart they provide about the positioning of the media, but Ad Fontes Media attempts to mitigate the team's biases, even if the founder publicly defines herself as of left-of-center political views (https://adfontesmedia.com/is-the-media-bias-chart-biased/). || Glen Nelson's Center Horizon Fund and Gaingels, which financed the project are of lean-left political views.
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|Media Bias / fact-Check || This network defines itself as independent since it is financed through the membership of the readers (65%). However, they are also being funded by advertising through Google Adsense and Snigel (35%), donations account for only 5% coming from Patron and Paypal (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/funding/) || Media Bias / fact-Check uses a scoring system to determine the bias of a media outlet/piece of news, therefore they strive to be as more objective as possible (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/frequently-asked-questions/).
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| The Trust Project ||
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|Ground News || Ground News claims to be funded by private investors without links to corporate media, big tech, or government affiliations (https://ground.news/frequently-asked-questions). || Ground News uses a scoring system to determine the bias of a media outlet/piece of news, therefore they do not publish original contents in terms of authorship and aim at giving the readers tools to assess the credibility and bias of the media they read (https://ground.news/rating-system).
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|Snopes.com || Advertising revenue and generous contributions from readers || Snopes is defined by AllSides as a lean left fact-checking institution (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/fact-check-bias-chart). To address the question they published a post with the diverse opinion on Snopes by their readers (https://www.snopes.com/2015/04/17/eye-of-the-beholder/). ||
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|FactCheck.org || FactCheck.org is financed by the Annenberg Public Policy Center internal to the Pennsylvania University which was founded by Walter and Leonore Cohn Anneberg, who was a UK ambassandor during Nixon presidency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonore_Annenberg). || A part from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, additional funding has been coming from the Flora Family Foundation and in 2010 they started receiving donations from private individuals (https://www.factcheck.org/spindetectors/about/). || AllSides places FactCheck.org in lean left bias following their evaluation (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/fact-check-bias-chart).
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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-27T16:31:10Z

Greta Miravalle:

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! Fact-checking site !! Financing !! Founders !! Association
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| AllSides || Subscriptions and services for the 23%, advertising for the 4%, client services for the 72%. The data refer to 2022 || John Gable, Scott McDonald, Joan Blades || AllSides works with Harvard University, Brave Software and USA Today among the others listed on their websites as clients.
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|Ad Fontes Media ||
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|Media Bias / fact-Check ||
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| The Trust Project ||
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|Ground News ||
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|Snopes.com || Advertising revenue and generous contributions from readers || Chris Richmond, Drew Schoentrup ||
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|FactCheck.org ||
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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-27T16:19:07Z

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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-27T16:15:09Z

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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-27T16:00:38Z

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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-27T16:00:12Z

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Fact-checking instruments

2025-03-27T15:49:08Z

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2025-03-27T15:46:54Z

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News check

2025-03-27T15:40:33Z

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2025-03-27T15:31:55Z

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Quality check

2025-03-27T15:30:53Z

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In this page the parameters to evaluate a piece of information will be explained for the user to have a guide in the submission of their evaluation. Every parameter will be explained and justified in detail.

* Literary quality: is the article distinguished by a good, poor, average, remarkable, excellent, great, qualified, extraordinary literary quality? Please point out the most appropriate adjective and evaluate it independently by the journalistic genre.
This parameter helps the reader identifying the literary style of the article, and helps reflecting upon its clarity and level of understability. The clarity of the language used to express an idea can highly influence the way the piece of information is perceived.

* Bias: is the author of the article part of any movement/organization/institution etc. that might have influenced his view of what he expresses in the article? Is there any bias due to funding received, pre-established ideals, or "company visions" ? Assess the writer's independence.
Bias is a relevant aspect when judging a piece of information, as it may be relevant how much the author is familiar with the topic, whether they are working at the service of a specific organization and whether the organization itself is or is not tied with specific political visions. The reader, once aware of the author's background is probably more akin to see the content of their writing in a perspective way.

* Vocabulary used: is the article polarized or neutral onthe language point of view? Please point out whether the vocabulary used is violent, provocative, misleading, neutral, detached or accurate.
By the kind of voabulary used, it is possible to understand the target audience of the author, the sensations and emotions they want the reader to feel, the modalities through which they express their ideas and data. Therefore, reflecting upon vocabulary is useful to understand the nature of a piece of information.

* Level of Analysis: containing validity of arguments, depth of analysis and breadth of vision.
This level of analysis of a piece of news is valued through different parameters. The first is the validity of arguments, through which the reader is asked to express about the validity of the arguments presented in the article. The second specification has to do with the level of analysis presented in the article. Finally, the breadth of vision is also taken into account.
Analysing these three categories can shed light on the quality of the analysis proposed by the author, is it sufficiently deep? Does it take into account all perspectives? is it taking into consideration various angles of the issue/news it is analysing? By answering this question, the quality of the piece of news is also enhanced.

* Methodology: containing theory based, quantitative methods and qualitative methods.
This level of analysis is striclty linked with the previous section, as it analyses the methods through which the article was written. Was it based on facts and well-known theories? Did it explain an idea based on statistical data or data collected through interviewing and research? By looking at these parameters, the work that the author has put into the article's production will show whether the research was accurate or not.

* Emotional impact: is the article having an emotional impact on its audience? Please evaluate that on a scale from shameful, ridiculous, shocking, surprising, pleasant, excting, epic, enlightening or indifferent.
The scale aims at capturing the emotional impact of the article on the reader, and better understanding the reactions it caused and, after careful analysis, why were they sparking in the audience.

* Social impact: is the article having an impact on the narrative of the issue/news? Please evaluate that on a scale from dangerous, hazardous, neutral, inspiring or favourable.
In this case, the evaluation should put the article in perspective with other articles on the same topic. Does this one add a unique point of view, or data, to the narrative of an issue or a piece of news?

Quality check

2025-03-27T15:30:22Z

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2025-03-27T14:53:51Z

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2025-03-27T14:52:51Z

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2025-03-27T14:50:58Z

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2025-03-27T14:48:49Z

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