{"id":3792,"date":"2016-06-15T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2016-06-30T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:36:10","slug":"gloval-fact-3-third-third-annual-global-fact-checking-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/gloval-fact-3-third-third-annual-global-fact-checking-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Fact 3 – Third third annual Global Fact-Checking Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, istinomjer.ba<\/a> attended third annual Global Fact-Checking Summit, that took place in Buenos Aires from 9th-10th of June.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The fact-checking movement is all grown up.<\/p>\n

With Factcheck.org turning 13 this year, fact-checking is now a staple of American political coverage. And although they took hold later, by and large, international fact-checking initiatives are not exactly new either: D\u00e9sintox launched on France’s\u00a0Lib\u00e9ration in 2008; Argentina\u2019s Chequeado and the UK’s Full Fact are both six years old.<\/p>\n

With this in mind \u2014 and even as they candidly shared stories of failure<\/a> \u2014 participantsof the Third Global Fact-Checking Summit<\/a> agreed to take steps to strengthen the reliability of fact-checking as a tool of accountability journalism while also finding ways to expand its reach.<\/p>\n

A key discussion involved a shared code of principles that would push fact-checkers towards ever-greater transparency and consolidate readers\u2019 trust in the instrument.<\/a><\/p>\n

The code will emphasize a commitment to nonpartisanship as well as to transparency in methodology, sources and funding.<\/p>\n

“Most fact-checking organizations already abide by these principles, but having a written code we can all sign up to will have clear advantages,” says Peter Cunliffe Jones, director of Africa Check.<\/p>\n

For one, a set of principles could help distinguish good fact-checking from bad, at a time when political campaigns<\/a>, authoritarian governments<\/a> and lobbying groups with dubious agendas<\/a> try to claim the term.<\/p>\n

“We will seek advice from fact-checkers all around the world in the coming weeks,” says Cunliffe-Jones.<\/p>\n

Phoebe Arnold, senior communications officer at Full Fact, notes that “fact-checkers are a diverse group of organizations working in very different political environments,” which could make it challenging to create a code that is globally applicable.<\/p>\n

However “this diversity of experience” has its advantages, Arnold says, namely “being able to draw on the very best practices from around the world.”<\/p>\n

A parallel working group in Buenos Aires considered the establishment of an informal International Fact-Checking Day. This could help rally educational initiatives aimed at building critical thinking in school and encourage development and use of fact-checking tools.<\/p>\n

While the timing and format are yet to be determined, dates floated for this day included April 2, which would consecrate the event as the mirror-opposite of April Fool\u2019s Day. Fact-checkers half-jokingly considered reaching out to Google and Twitter, to develop tailored doodles and twitter emojis \u2014 or even the UN. After all, if yoga has a dedicated international day<\/a>, shouldn\u2019t fact-checking?<\/p>\n

Pablo Fern\u00e0ndez, editorial innovation coordinator at Chequeado, noted that the day “could help us increase the impact of all fact-checking organizations, as their digital and physical content could reach new audiences that usually don’t know about us. We need it.”<\/p>\n

Amy Hollyfield, deputy managing Editor at The Tampa Bay Times suggests it could be “a day for action, with united efforts fact-checking a topic critically important across the world.”<\/p>\n

Other concrete projects to emerge from Global Fact 3 include the rollout of the \u201cShare the Facts\u201d widget<\/a> to international fact-checkers, a working group on joint impact-tracking and the establishment of a fellowship to enable fact-checkers to spend one week embedded with other fact-checking organizations around the world.<\/p>\n

Article can be originally found at poynter.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Author of the article is Alexios Mantzarlis\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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