I dont know why foreign powers have to interfere in countrie’s own problems. Just let them solve their own problems
No! It’s Putin manipulating before elections!
This is fucked up. Straight up election interference.
Welcomed actions against misinformation and abuse of power.
Interesting. The ‘fact checking’ industry is expanding and I agree with that to an extent, the issue though, is the perennial issue of ‘who fact checks the fact checkers’ or rather, ‘who bias checks the fact checkers’. The answer is, occasionally academics but often, fact checkers are unchecked.
Years ago, Politifact, the American political fact checker was analysed by a political scientist and found to be fairly biased in terms of the content selected for fact checking. The fact checking was fine generally, it was what Politifact decided to fact check that was problematic. A subsequent academic study corroborated that determination.
In Ireland, the Journal, an online news outlet, decided that it was a fact checker and released an entire fact based programme, the Good Information Project. One of the first subjects for scrutiny was immigration, particularly immigration through asylum.
Out of twelve articles published on migration and asylum, not one actually addresses the acceptance and refusal rates of asylum claimants in Ireland, not one; acceptance and refusal rates were, for obvious reasons, considered irrelevant to the conversation of a ‘fact based’ discussion on immigration. The Good Information Project was facilitated by EU funds.
Fact checkers are fine but they are often flawed, particularly if they are associated with or an extension of, an established paper or organisation. In Hungary this is probably a positive on the whole but I remain sceptical of any and all fact checkers.
Strongly worded facts
Fact checkers serve as little more then counter pieces and I find it questionable that the government is allowed to fund them. It’s not different then how Russia uses RT or how China uses Global Times (or whatever their ‘paper’ was called).
> lakmusz.hu, the first fact-checking website in Hungary, was launched on Tuesday (11 January) as the result of an EU project with an initial duration of 15 months. The European Commission awarded it to France’s state-owned news agency AFP, Hungarian website 444.hu and the Media Universalis Foundation.
So French state owned news agency + Hungarian caviar-socialist journalists funded with EU money create a new media product and call it ‘fact checking’.
Up until now I was hesitant, but now I’m definitely going to vote Fidesz.
Vive la HonHonHongrie!
The ones who SHOULD use it the most, will definitely NOT use it. Lemonade stand on a battlefield.
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I dont know why foreign powers have to interfere in countrie’s own problems. Just let them solve their own problems
No! It’s Putin manipulating before elections!
This is fucked up. Straight up election interference.
Welcomed actions against misinformation and abuse of power.
Interesting. The ‘fact checking’ industry is expanding and I agree with that to an extent, the issue though, is the perennial issue of ‘who fact checks the fact checkers’ or rather, ‘who bias checks the fact checkers’. The answer is, occasionally academics but often, fact checkers are unchecked.
Years ago, Politifact, the American political fact checker was analysed by a political scientist and found to be fairly biased in terms of the content selected for fact checking. The fact checking was fine generally, it was what Politifact decided to fact check that was problematic. A subsequent academic study corroborated that determination.
In Ireland, the Journal, an online news outlet, decided that it was a fact checker and released an entire fact based programme, the Good Information Project. One of the first subjects for scrutiny was immigration, particularly immigration through asylum.
Out of twelve articles published on migration and asylum, not one actually addresses the acceptance and refusal rates of asylum claimants in Ireland, not one; acceptance and refusal rates were, for obvious reasons, considered irrelevant to the conversation of a ‘fact based’ discussion on immigration. The Good Information Project was facilitated by EU funds.
Fact checkers are fine but they are often flawed, particularly if they are associated with or an extension of, an established paper or organisation. In Hungary this is probably a positive on the whole but I remain sceptical of any and all fact checkers.
Strongly worded facts
Fact checkers serve as little more then counter pieces and I find it questionable that the government is allowed to fund them. It’s not different then how Russia uses RT or how China uses Global Times (or whatever their ‘paper’ was called).
> lakmusz.hu, the first fact-checking website in Hungary, was launched on Tuesday (11 January) as the result of an EU project with an initial duration of 15 months. The European Commission awarded it to France’s state-owned news agency AFP, Hungarian website 444.hu and the Media Universalis Foundation.
So French state owned news agency + Hungarian caviar-socialist journalists funded with EU money create a new media product and call it ‘fact checking’.
Up until now I was hesitant, but now I’m definitely going to vote Fidesz.
Vive la HonHonHongrie!
The ones who SHOULD use it the most, will definitely NOT use it. Lemonade stand on a battlefield.