{"id":1458,"date":"2020-07-20T01:41:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=1458"},"modified":"2020-07-20T01:41:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:41:04","slug":"verification-spotting-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/verification-spotting-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Verification &#038; spotting fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discipline of journalism is verification.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists\u00a0 should always be able to spot fake news, propaganda and deceptive practices. They should label or exclude fakery from the public record.<\/p>\n<p>Verification &#8211; Includes intro, misinformation &#8211; false or inaccurate<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GNI Live: Verification (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lFdGHo2aM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 G.co\/factchecktools Fact Check Explorer \/\/ Politifact \/\/ Snopes \/\/ APfactcheck<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 News literacy project https:\/\/newslit.org\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 InVID-project.eu Analysis &#8211; metadata from photo or video, location, rights, dates, detail, filters, keyframes<br \/>\n\u2022 Plugin for browser Fake News debunker<\/p>\n<p>Reverse image search in InVID &amp; Images.Google.com<\/p>\n<p>Google Jigsaw team &#8211; Assembler &#8211; experiment in detecting fake photos<br \/>\nVideo verification technique walkthrough<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus fact checking (Poynter)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kilUgfkLjB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2020\/unsupported-a-powerful-rating-to-flag-covid-19-conspiracy-theories\/\">&#8216;Unsupported&#8217;: a powerful rating to flag COVID-19 conspiracy theories<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;Unsupported&#8217;: a powerful rating to flag COVID-19 conspiracy theories&#8221; &#8212; Poynter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2020\/unsupported-a-powerful-rating-to-flag-covid-19-conspiracy-theories\/embed\/#?secret=MgNe0TDPbF#?secret=kilUgfkLjB\" data-secret=\"kilUgfkLjB\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu\/tutorials\/osi_verification\/.<\/p>\n<p>Some politicians, particularly Donald Trump, are quick to cry &#8220;fake news&#8221; when a legitimate, factual news item upsets them.\u00a0 But there are several virulent strains of fake news. Probably the worst are those coming from Russian troll farms.\u00a0 This video from the CBS show &#8220;The Good Fight&#8221; tells part of the story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EC8KRd0sDGs\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotting propaganda and fake news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A home-grown example of faking fraud took place in September of 2016, when the (fake) \u201cChristian Times Newspaper\u201d shows \u201cRandall Prince\u201d with his supposed discovery of fraudulently pre-marked Clinton ballots in the Ohio primary. <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BALLOT-300x200-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1470\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BALLOT-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the picture was taken in 2015 in Birmingham, England, and was just about preparation for an upcoming election. The fake was caught on Snopes.com, a good place to check the veracity of online news.<\/p>\n<p>Spotting fake news has become something of an arm-chair sport, and there\u2019s even a game, \u201cFacticious,\u201d that shows some of the boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Another web site at the University of Pittsburgh helps provide standards to\u00a0debunk fake news.<\/p>\n<p>So, clearly, what is NOT journalism is the suite of \u201cDisinformedia\u201d sites, run out of Los Angeles, or the\u00a0 \u201cChristianTimesNewspaper\u201d run out of a Baltimore suburb, with stories for example about voter fraud and Hillary Clinton in the months before the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>But these American cyber news fakes were pretty small potatoes compared to the sophisticated manipulation behind Russia\u2019s cyber campaign to disrupt the U.S. election, according to a variety of articles listed below.\u00a0 Thousands of full time expert hackers in Russia, China, North Korea and other countries are engaged in a constant attack on Americans, leading them (for example) to pick the weakest possible presidential candidates and to devalue democratic institutions.<br \/>\n\ufffc<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeO0B6MpraU\">From a Russian troll farm<\/a>, summer 2018, according to CNN.\u00a0 Perfectly legit, according to RT.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeO0B6MpraU (Oh really?)<\/p>\n<p>The news about fake news:<br \/>\nThe\u00a0 \u201cTroll Farm\u201d in St. Petersburg, Russia\u00a0 pushed American activists into fighting each other before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Fake news and botnets: How Russia weaponized the web, Guardian, December 2,\u00a0 2018<\/p>\n<p>Securing Democracy\u00a0\u2014 A dashboard that displays data about Russian propaganda efforts on Twitter in near-real time. Our analysts use the dashboard and other sources to discover Russian propaganda themes.<br \/>\nRussian Television (RT.com)\u00a0says that the Walk Away campaign was not created by Russians.<br \/>\nDoes journalism need to change?<br \/>\nIn the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, some people are asking whether journalism needs to change the basic premises of news coverage.<br \/>\nCandis Callison and Mary Lynn Young, who wrote\u00a0Reckoning: Journalism\u2019s Limits and Possibilities\u00a0say that journalists are trained to ask who, what, where, why, when and how. But a question that doesn\u2019t often make it into the news is this: how do we want to live together?<br \/>\nMargaret Sullivan, in\u00a0a June 7, 2020 Washington Post op-ed,\u00a0insists that journalism is not \u201cjust the facts\u201d stenography:<br \/>\nEvery piece of reporting \u2014 written or spoken, told in text or in images \u2014 is the product of choices. Every article approaches its subject from somebody\u2019s perspective. Every digital home page, every printed front page, every 30-minute newscast, every one of the news alerts blowing up your phone, every radio talk show is the product of decision-making. We\u00a0choose\u00a0what to focus on, what to amplify, what to investigate and examine.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why the simplistic \u201cjust the unadorned facts\u201d can be such a canard. And that\u2019s why the notion to \u201crepresent all points of view equally\u201d is absurd and sometimes wrongheaded. \u201cJournalism is not stenography\u201d is a refrain from an astute editor I know.<br \/>\nThe real answer is to make better, wiser choices \u2014 ones that best serve our important mission to find and tell the truth.<br \/>\nMargaret sullivan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discipline of journalism is verification. 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