Katie Sanders

2 weeks ago | statesman.com | Katie Sanders

Pope Francis defended truth as misinformation trailed himKatie Sanders |  PolitiFact.comPope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.  Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden "snake tactics" that led to the original sin.

3 weeks ago | poynter.org | Katie Sanders

Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online. Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden “snake tactics” that led to the original sin. “There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; on the contrary, trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences,” he wrote Jan. 24, 2018, for World Communications Day.

3 weeks ago | poynter.org | Katie Sanders

Katie Sanders is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Katie oversees PolitiFact’s nonprofit fact-checking newsroom and its Pulitzer Prize-winning website. She also regularly teaches fact-checking techniques to journalists, social media influencers and students from around the world. She currently serves as president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. Katie is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she majored in English and journalism.

3 weeks ago | politifact.com | Katie Sanders

Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.  Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden "snake tactics" that led to the original sin. "There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; on the contrary, trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences," he wrote Jan. 24, 2018, for World Communications Day.

1 month ago | politifact.com | Katie Sanders

April 2 is a big day. For U.S. President Donald Trump, it’s what he’s described as "liberation day," the date he planned to roll out "reciprocal" tariffs with countries that have trade imbalances with the U.S.And for fact-checkers, it’s International Fact-Checking Day, the post-April Fools’ holiday started by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network.