Some nice publicity for Full Fact's work #FactChecking an extremely common kind of spam. These engagement-bait scams have just been *everywhere* on #Facebook for the past few months. Just constant whack-a-mole dealing with them, and I suspect (since they're using referral codes and linking to legitimate websites) that they're being indirectly funded by ad money from legit companies who don't realise what they're paying for.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/24/local-facebook-groups-hoax-posts
#Meta

🔛Continuano le attività della #SummerAcademy #insiemeperEU
📌Disinformazione e come contrastarla in vista delle #europee2024.
Come si stabilisce se un contenuto è vero o falso?
Ne parliamo con Salvatore Custureri e Gianmarco Passerini @IDMO_it @LuissDataLab
#factchecking🇪🇺 https://t.co/CCA1heZ4zj

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_IT/status/1681284641326546946

🔎 #factchecking najčešćih zabluda o #DigitalEuro!
@ecb istražuje mogućnost uvođenja digitalne verzije eura, ali naravno, gotovina i dalje ostaje 💶. #YourCoice
Saznajte više ⬇️ #CBDC
@ecfin @DigitalEU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EK_Hrvatska/status/1677709131019440129

Got a lot of new follows recently from people probably expecting me to post more about #FactChecking. Just a warning, I mostly don't, but here's my latest for #AfricaCheck, about the DA's claim that it created 98% of all new jobs in #SouthAfrica in Q4 of last year.

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-western-cape-province-account-98-all-new-employment-south-africa-why-das

RT @EDMO_EUI: 🗺️ Do you know the interactive #FactChecking map by #EDMOeu Hubs ?

Discover what the Hubs think is their most interesting fact-check piece for May 2023. The map is updated on a monthly basis.

@PagellaPolitica

Have a look ⤵️
https://t.co/gi02fJgJ9K

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_HaDEA/status/1664617879923195906

El intento del Kremlin de negar, culpar a otros, confundir y mentir sobre la verdad ha fracasado.

En el Día del #Factchecking, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de contrarrestar la desinformación dejando las cosas claras.
Revisa #EUvsDinsinfo⬇️
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-bucha-massacre-mapping-a-year-of-kremlin-denial/
RT @EU_Commission: Kremlin's attempt to deny, blame others, confuse and lie about the truth has failed.

On #FactcheckingDay, we reaffirm our com…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/UEenChile/status/1642927581967024128

En cette journée internationale du #factchecking la place de l’🇪🇺 détricote les #fakenews à la @foirelivrebxl

#InternationalFactCheckingDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU4BE/status/1642471041795608577

RT @EUAmbKS: Ahead of the International #FactChecking Day, 2 April, today I had the honour to join 🇽🇰#Kosovo PM @albinkurti and an 🇪🇺#EU-@BIRN_Network Kosovo conference on combating #Disinformation & the importance of fact-checking in the rapidly changing on-line information environment.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUKosovo/status/1641518203409924096

Tonight is the South African State of the Nation Address which is (unsurprisingly) a big night at #AfricaCheck. Up late tonight and early tomorrow looking for claims to fact-check.

#FactChecking #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricadon #SONA2023

RT @EDMO_EUI: Jan #EDMOeu brief on #RussiaUkraineWar out!

#Disinformation narratives on Ukrainians being violent anti-🇵🇱 nationalists & part of a global #conspiracy

📈Growing #factchecking on #Leopard tanks shown as useless & Made in China

🔀Full insight & examples: https://t.co/CbUF6DesL8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/alexstubb/status/1621539231242878984

RT @ei_foundation: Opening of the #Factchecking training for regional correspondents & radio journalists with the EC represntation in #BG's @koliovm and the directors of @bnrbg & @ei_foundation. #factcheckEI_BNR, supported by @EMIF_Fund ↘️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ECinBulgaria/status/1620743322200600576

RT @CEDMOhub: 😷 Anti-vaccine advocates claim inhaling #HydrogenPeroxide can cure respiratory illnesses such as #Covid19.
⚠️ This is unproven, and experts warn it is dangerous – Read the fact check: https://t.co/gXoGAURfSy

@EDMO_EUI #EDMOeu #FactCheck #Factchecking

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/alexstubb/status/1618899708872916992

RT @CEDMOhub: 🌡 A massively shared video misrepresents #UN panel’s #GlobalWarming projections, says the matter is not as urgent as activists believe.
🔎 Key data was misinterpreted – Read the fact check: https://t.co/ckvABe4YtL

@EDMO_EUI #EDMOeu #FactCheck #Factchecking

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/alexstubb/status/1618523802669047808

#Conservative #Liberal #FactChecking #Politics

«How to spot AI-generated text» | MIT Technology Review. An #EmergingTech challenge with #AI, #AIGeneratedText, #Forensics, #FactChecking

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065596/how-to-spot-ai-generated-text/

«It's a Festivus Debunking!» - by Adrian Daub. Dissects the problems with a recent WSJ article saying that #StanfordUniversity had issued a list of English words & terms to avoid. Daub give a great overview of his #FactChecking process. Yes, there’s a list. But it’s not an official list, etc.

https://adriandaub.substack.com/p/its-a-festivus-debunking

Very proud of this blog post reviewing South African government websites. Had fun writing it, and I think it's genuinely interesting. If only I could force the SASSA communication department to sit down and read it!

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/blog/good-bad-and-ugly-we-rate-south-african-government-websites

#AfricaCheck #SouthAfrica #Government #Communication #Internet #FactChecking

💬"Osobito mi je drago što je 🇭🇷 u svoj Plan Oporavka i Otpornosti uključila mjeru uspostave provjere točnosti informacija #factchecking. Za provedbu ove mjere osigurano je 45 milijuna kuna bespovratnih sredstava iz fonda #NextGenerationEU." @dubravkasuica
#FactsMatter

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EK_Hrvatska/status/1603834614543699969

📢 Macron est de retour sur Youtube, à notre immense plaisir...
C'est donc reparti pour une petite séance de #factchecking ! 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/marietouss1/status/1599796620102578176

Then there's the email today from an author of a paper in a small denominational heritage society newsletter. A reader of the August 2022 issue pointed out that x church was founded in 1906, not 2006, as the photo caption said. Two proofreaders + me let that one through! #AmEditing #AmProofreading #FactChecking #Errata #Edibuddies