European Fact-Checking Standards Network Announces First Annual Conference
23 September 2024 – The European Fact-Checking Standards Network has announced its first annual conference to take place in Brussels,…
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Farmers’ Protests Weaponized to Spread Climate Misinformation, Report Finds
Farmers’ protests in several European countries have been weaponized to spread false or misleading claims to discredit political action against climate change and fuel deep-seated distrust towards the European Union, according to a report on climate disinformation related to the protests.
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Science Feedback Participates in Project Leveraging AI to Combat Climate Misinformation
FactCRICIS aims to support fact-checkers in identifying and debunking disinformation campaigns related to climate change and other crises, fostering more rapid, impactful and coordinated responses within and across European borders.
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European Fact-Checking Organisations Launch Climate Disinformation Database
European fact-checkers have joined forces to combat climate disinformation with the launch of Climate Facts Europe – a public database and alert system supported by the European Climate Foundation.
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Science Feedback participates in creating biggest fact-checking database for European Elections
Ahead of the 2024 European Parliament elections, Science Feedback has partnered with the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) and over 40 organizations to create Elections24Check – a comprehensive open database of fact-checks, debunks, and reports on disinformation narratives across the continent.
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Science Feedback releases datasets of Web domain credibility
Assessing the reliability of online sources of information at scale is a necessary precondition for improving the quality of the…
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Science Feedback invited to speak at the European Science-Media Hub Summer School 2023
Flora Teoh, PhD, Science Editor at Health Feedback, was invited to speak at the session on “Best practices in science…
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Google’s demonetization of misinformation: one year on
ProPublica finds that Google still monetizes many websites and articles that promote harmful misinformation, much of which is in direct breach of its stated demonetization policy. Enforcement of its own rules on languages other than English is particularly lacking.
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Introducing the Climate Science Desk, Science Feedback’s new portal to help journalists verify climate claims
Supported by the Climate Misinformation Grant Program from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, Science Feedback is…
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More than 80 fact-checking organizations call on YouTube to tackle misinformation
“The examples are too many to count. Many of those videos and channels remain online today, and they all went under the radar of YouTube’s policies, especially in non-English speaking countries and the Global South. We are glad that the company has made some moves to try to address this problem lately, but based on what we see daily on the platform, we think these efforts are not working“