
Angie Holan
Director, International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter Online
Fact-checking, journalism, libraries. Email [email protected]
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1 week ago |
poynter.org | Angie Holan
It wasn’t long ago that fact-checkers in Poland noticed a surge of online misinformation about Africa — anti-science claims about vaccines, anticolonialist claims involving Russia and anti-immigrant claims about refugees. The Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs noticed it, too, and sought to fund independent journalism projects to do some debunking and fact-checking.
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1 month ago |
poynter.org | Angie Holan
Every year on April 2, fact-checkers celebrate International Fact-Checking Day. Usually it’s a time for celebration, fun, even for a little irreverence. This year, for example, the British actor Stephen Fry is giving fact-checkers a shout-out and asking people to think before they share. But this year’s fact-checking day also marks a very serious moment for the fact-checking community.
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1 month ago |
factcheckhub.com | FactCheck Hub |Angie Holan
Verifiable evidence remains journalism’s foundation, despite mounting attacks on the press, WRITES . Picture a world where evidence doesn’t matter, where the loudest voices win, and where calling out falsehoods is seen as an act of bias. Welcome to 2025. Donald Trump — the most fact-checked presidential candidate in history, because he’s spoken the most falsehoods — won the White House again.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
editorandpublisher.com | Angie Holan
Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2025 9:43 am Picture a world where evidence doesn’t matter, where the loudest voices win, and where calling out falsehoods is seen as an act of bias. Welcome to 2025.
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Feb 10, 2025 |
poynter.org | Angie Holan
Picture a world where evidence doesn’t matter, where the loudest voices win, and where calling out falsehoods is seen as an act of bias. Welcome to 2025. Donald Trump — the most fact-checked presidential candidate in history, because he’s spoken the most falsehoods — won the White House again. The social media company Meta, which owns Facebook, ended its third-party fact-checking program, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming that fact-checkers are biased.
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