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?