{"id":1758050,"date":"2022-12-01T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758050"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:18:03","slug":"the-world-needs-fact-checking-tech-giants-giving-13-million-to-fund-global-fact-checking-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-world-needs-fact-checking-tech-giants-giving-13-million-to-fund-global-fact-checking-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The World Needs Fact-Checking\u2019: Tech Giants Giving $13 Million To Fund Global Fact-Checking Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-world-needs-fact-checking-tech-giants-giving-13-million-to-fund-global-fact-checking-initiatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/big-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tech giants<\/a> on Tuesday announced a $13 million grant to fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fact-checking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global fact-checking<\/a> projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> and YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2022\/google-and-youtube-partner-with-poynters-international-fact-checking-network-on-13-2-million-grant-for-the-global-fact-checking-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> they would provide financial support to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an arm of the Poynter Institute, to support \u201cfact-checking initiatives\u201d through 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world needs fact-checking more than ever before. This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction,\u201d said Baybars \u00d6rsek, the IFCN\u2019s executive director. \u201cAnd while there\u2019s much work to be done, this partnership has sparked meaningful collaboration and an important step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About $12 million of the grant will go to the group\u2019s Global Fact Check Fund, which will be disbursed to fact-checking groups from around the world that adhere to its Code of Principles. These include groups in the U.S., Brazil, Nepal, Ukraine, Norway, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, and India.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6rsek added that IFCN was \u201cgrateful to Google and YouTube for their commitment to bolster fact-checkers in an ever-increasing environment of mis- and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Poynter Institute, some funds will go toward a foundation to establish a \u201cneutral and independent selection committee\u201d and other expansions of the fact-checking program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The IFCN was established in 2015, and its advisory board <a href=\"https:\/\/ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org\/board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">includes<\/a> individuals from various organizations, including PolitiFact and The Washington Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Ma, who manages Google\u2019s Global News Program and Ecosystem, said that the company believed it had a role in combating \u201cmisinformation\u201d and guiding people toward making \u201cinformed decisions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society. We take seriously our role in helping to fight misinformation by continually investing in products, programs and partnerships that help people access high-quality information,\u201d Ma said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some have raised concerns about the growing emphasis on fact-checking in recent years, with critics questioning whether the motivation is to suppress conservative or differing viewpoints. For example, the theory that COVID may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, was initially widely maligned by certain fact-checkers as the origin of the respiratory virus. However, Facebook later reversed course, saying that the theory was now up for debate and had not been thoroughly discredited. At around the same time, PolitiFact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/li-meng-yan-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retracted<\/a> a fact-check it had run on the claim saying that the theory was now more \u201cdisputed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year, Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former PolitiFact source, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meet-the-former-politifact-fact-checker-who-quit-over-left-wing-bias-wanted-me-to-help-them-nail-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire that the fact-checking group wanted him to \u201chelp them nail Republicans.\u201d Riedl also claimed PolitiFact would start with a \u201crating\u201d of a claim and then work backward to justify that rating.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two major tech giants on Tuesday announced a $13 million grant to fund global fact-checking projects.\u00a0 Google and YouTube said they would provide financial support to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an arm of the Poynter Institute, to support \u201cfact-checking initiatives\u201d through 2025.\u00a0 \u201cThe world needs fact-checking more than ever before. 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