But it's not a cult!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CPJZsNod4/

Project Aldrin / Facebook into China, a partial retrospective from someone who saw some of the code
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112685
#CarelessPeople #FactChecking #ProjectAldrin #censorship #china #facebook

New York Times: "Pres. Trump said in his address to Congress that he inherited an economic catastrophe from Joe Biden. The U.S. had the strongest economy in the world when Trump took over, but it's shown signs of strain from Trump's federal funding cuts and tariffs." #politics #FactChecking #TrumpLies

#FactChecking #Trump’s Address to #Congress

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/factchecking-trumps-address-to-congress-2/
#factcheck #politics #doublespeak

We just hit 17 different causes and 80 organizations featured on our website! So, are you ready to help them fight back?

https://resistance-toolkit.com

Crooks, liars, charlatans, snake oil salesmen, fraudsters, phonies... People who believe these lies are in a process of collective denial.

"The day after Ernst released her report, Federal News Network added an editor’s note to the post saying that Friedman’s story had been reworked to “clarify that the survey was a non-scientific survey of respondents who self-reported that they are current federal employees, and who were self-selected.”

The editors said they had also added data from an August 2024 study by the Office of Management and Budget, which found that 54% of the federal workforce was required to show up at an office every day. According to the study, just 10% of federal employees worked exclusively from home. Those allowed to have hybrid schedules ended up spending an average of 60% of their work time at federal offices.

In the world of journalism, this is how editors try to address egregious misreadings of their work. Jared Serbu, the deputy editor of Federal News Network, said he and his colleagues were taken aback by how his organization’s clearly unscientific survey had somehow been transformed into a defining statistic about federal employees.

“It was a survey of our niche audience for our niche audience,” Serbu said. “Nobody’s ever been confused about it before this.”

Later in December, a TV report cited the editor’s note and labeled the 6% number as “false.” At about the same time, PolitiFact looked at Johnson’s claim that only 1% of federal workers show up to work each day and labeled it “pants on fire,” the fact-checking site’s lowest rating for a statement that is “not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim.”

That should have ended the conversation. But it didn’t."

https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1740488411&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

At the same time as Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact checkers, it revamped a program that rewards creators with high engagement. What could possibly go wrong? @ProPublica spoke to experts about how this will fuel viral hoaxes, as well as to the manager of the NO Filter Seeking Truth page, who has shared so much false information she's currently banned by Meta from earning money. She described the news about the end of fact-checking as "great information."

https://flip.it/E-VMhf

Ooh, https://science.feedback.org is a great resource! It's like @snopes for slightly more involved scientific questions!

h/t https://mastodon.online/@hildabast

Instead of quoting the words of a wannabe dictator and Musk's and Putin's puppet up and down in outrage, please quote fact checks and good critical journalism instead. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/factchecking-donald-trump-claims-war-ukraine

Essential reading: Paul M. Barrett's meta article on fact-checking for the Tech Policy Blog.

After providing a short history of the discipline, he goes on to debunk three myths, namely that

...fact-checking censors free speech...
...is biased against conservatives...
...and just doesn't work.

https://www.techpolicy.press/some-facts-about-fact-checking-defending-the-imperfect-search-for-truth-in-an-era-of-institutionalized-lying/

#Vance of the #Mump Regime demands more #freedom for #fascism also in #europe and an end to #factchecking -

german defense minister tell him to fuck off (in his own, slightly more polished words)

https://www.dw.com/en/msc-2025-germanys-pistorius-derides-vances-remarks/live-71599568

Address science misinformation not by repeating the facts, but by building conversation and community, a social scientist argues.

From @ConversationUS: "It’s not enough for science to be right — it has to be accepted within people’s social circles to have any meaningful impact."

https://flip.it/by4Jic

Today it happened for the first time in my journalistic career: Two announcements from the USA, one crazier than the other. One a hoax, the other a fact.

The more normal and logical one was the hoax.