I am working on ways to talk with people who do not trust current fact-checking media outlets such as Politico, Factcheck.org, and Snopes. I would love to hear from people who do and do not trust these organizations. Why you do/do not trust these organizations? How often do you read or see articles from these outlets? And finally what are some of the Fact-checking media outlets that you do trust and follow and why?
Please reach out with any other questions or comments that you might have!
Hope to talk to all of you!
Who do you work for?
Where will your work be published?
can we see any of your prior articles?
Do you find any of the websites you listed as credible? if so would you mind explaining why and why you blindly accept the info as fact when these websites tell it to you.
Go research snopes and the founders/owners. They are low moral people who have abused the funds from that site for drugs and sex workers. They act as a mouth piece of the radical left. They have zero credibility and only serve to be a megaphone for the talking points on the left. People do not trust them because they are aware of the bias, false narratives, and poor character of the website owners.
I do my own research to find out the truth behind an issue rather than looking for a website to tell me what to believe.
Hi! Thank you for replying. I am actually a Journalism Grad student at CUNY, working on my capstone on fact-checking and misinformation. I have worked as an intern in Turkey for a fact-checking organization called Teyit. They mostly fact-check viral news that is trending online, and that is where I got into this field.
As for credibility, I find them credible because of their sources. I would quickly read an article, then move on to looking at the sources they provide to make my own decision on the topic. I don't trust media outlets to fact-check everything completely, so I would always look at the sources.
Snopes is getting a lot of negative feedback from people, and I understand that. What do you think about other fact-checking platforms? Do you have any that you would trust, not blindly, of course?
Thank you for your reply.
Sources are great, but we must always remember to "trust but verify". There are reports from traditionally trustworthy news sources/media outlets of "white helmets" in Syria doing good things but it has come out that many of these good actions were staged.
Fact-checking platforms are not a source of news or media for me. I do not use any fact-checking platforms when researching the validity of information. They are solely used to drive the agenda of their parent company/funders and bend the truth in the direction they so desire. The actual interview, official/FOIA documents, multiple eyewitness accounts, these are the types of information i use as my sources. I end up at these sources after finding the news/event that i am interested in and work back to verifiable source documents, existing recordings and the like.
Relying on others to verify "facts" with the current state of the main stream news media leads to an echo chamber that serves to distort the truth. The current situation with Ukraine is a great example of that. CNN would have you believe that ambassador Sondland said there was a quid pro quo. His recorded testimony, which can be viewed online, shows otherwise. CNN is fabricating facts in hopes people will not go watch it themselves. Fact-checking platforms then confirm what the news media has said. Those fact-checking platforms are then ranked higher in search results on google and/or used on sites like facebook to keep "false/fake" news from spreading (false/fake being news that does not agree with the narrative of the fact checkers and MSM.)
The truth is, if you follow the money you will see why these fact-checkers operate the way the they do.
Who owns them and who funds them? (please check me but i believe "media matters" is owned by David Brock who is involved deeply with Hillary and the DNC")
politifact is primarily funded by the poynter institute, which lists google, face book, and the open society foundations as some of its largest donors.
The open society foundation is funded by George Soros, if you are not familiar with his globalist agenda you need to start there. This man attempts to short national currencies, making a fortune as economies fail. Pure Evil.
Yeah, I agree. OP sounds like a David Brock data miner. Or he’s dumber than the typical reporter, I mean person who processes the daily DNC talking points memo for reprinting.
Wanna bet this shill used the words “explosive” or “bombshell” this week?