This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, and more. CBS Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on The Traitor-Era Deportations, Prompting Internal Backlash CBS News abruptly pulled a “60 Minutes” segment titled “Inside CECOT” justContinue Reading
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Claim via Social Media (Bongino Inc): A viral meme claims that because Fulton County admitted more than 315,000 votes were associated with unsigned tabulator tapes, Georgia “admitted” those votes were illegally counted and that the 2020 election result was invalid. Explanation:Continue Reading
This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, and more. The Traitor Media to Merge with Fusion Power Startup TAE in $6B Deal The Traitor Media & Technology Group (TMTG) is merging with nuclearContinue Reading
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Fact Check Search Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, weContinue Reading
Every four years Iffy.news compiles PolitiFact-checks (with permission) to rate the veracity of political people. We convert their fact-checks into credibility scores, comparing pols, pundits, PACS, and partiesContinue Reading
Anatomy of an anti-vax fact-check: Consider the Source, Check the Site, Confirm the Content. Who made the claim, who published it, where’s the evidence?Continue Reading
Claim: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will resign as president of the Philippines. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A YouTube channel with 283,000 subscribers posted the claim on December 11. The thumbnail of the nine-minute video — which shows cut-out images of Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte with aContinue Reading
Claim: A judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) named Aishau Spede Adeyemi expressed his dismay at the denial of the interim release bid of former president Rodrigo Duterte, as stated in quote cards circulating online. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The quote cards can be found in postsContinue Reading
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Fact Check Search Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, weContinue Reading
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Fact Check Search Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, weContinue Reading
Voters tend to send the more truthful candidate to the US Senate. On average, winners perform better on PolitiFact checks than losers, incumbents better than challengers. But that may be changing.Continue Reading
Expanding on our Iffy.news/Veri.FYI session at WikiCredCon (February 15 2025). Please consider supporting the new Domain-Name Property Proposal in Wikidata, that emerged from this conference… Wikimedia is a wonderful source of information about the credibility of news sources. But it’s not a source of credibility data. It’s not a credibilityContinue Reading
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Fact Check Search Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, weContinue Reading