digital fact-checking agency
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DIGITAL FACT-CHECKING AGENCY
Wafana = Wahrheit (truth), Fakten (fact), Nachrichten (news)
Johanna Wild Ursula Trischler
Journalist and media trainer with international experience
MA Online Journalism with a focus on online verification
Twitter: @Johanna_Wild
News journalist for different German print, TV and radionewsrooms
Including Antenne Bayern and ZDF
Twitter: @UrsulaTrischler
The false online rumour: „Kagame is dead“
SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/BLOGS-TRENDING-25682683
WAFANA‘S MAIN FOCUS
User-generated-content (UGC)
Eyewitness media
Content found in social media
NOT: political fact-checking
WHAT ARE FAKE NEWS?
Often used for all types of false online information
WHAT ARE FAKE NEWS?
Craig Silverman, editor of the Verification Handbook:
• Completely false, created with knowledge of it being false
• Done for an economic motive
• They primarily generate traffic by seeding content in Facebook groups
• Political = Propaganda
Von Claire Wardle. Quelle: https://firstdraftnews.com/fake-news-complicated/
INTERVIEWS WITH 20 NEWSROOMS
→ 3 Types of online verifiers
THE DENIERS
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THE DENIERS
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THE DENIERS
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“The fake news debate is obsolete for our newsroom, because we always ask ‘Is this true?’ ”
THE DENIERS
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“The fake news debate is obsolete for our newsroom, because we always ask ‘Is this true?’ ”
THE DESPERATE
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THE DESPERATE
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THE DESPERATE
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THE EXPERTS
THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the topic of verification into journalistic education. The problem is that at the moment, we do not have many journalists who can pass their knowledge on to other journalists.”
THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the topic of verification into journalistic education. The problem is that at the moment, we do not have many journalists who can pass their knowledge on to other journalists.”
“We should not expect people to determine what is false and what is true themselves. This is a responsibility of the media. Journalists far too often leave lies ‘in the room’ without checking them.”
THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the topic of verification into journalistic education. The problem is that at the moment, we do not have many journalists who can pass their knowledge on to other journalists.”
“We should not expect people to determine what is false and what is true themselves. This is a responsibility of the media. Journalists far too often leave lies ‘in the room’ without checking them.”
“Verification is not very
expensive or time-consuming.
Making small adjustments –
such as attending fewer press
conferences – will enable
newsrooms to easily integrate
verification into their work.”
THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the topic of verification into journalistic education. The problem is that at the moment, we do not have many journalists who can pass their knowledge on to other journalists.”
“We should not expect people to determine what is false and what is true themselves. This is a responsibility of the media. Journalists far too often leave lies ‘in the room’ without checking them.”
“Verification is not very
expensive or time-consuming.
Making small adjustments –
such as attending fewer press
conferences – will enable
newsrooms to easily integrate
verification into their work.”
“The current situation is the consequence of print and online units still being separated within newsrooms.”
VERIFICATION TOOLS AND OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES
WAFANA: TRAINING IN ONLINE VERIFICATION
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The ‚perfect‘ tool does not exist
Verification is a process
Verification is a combination of traditional journalistic techniques and online techniques!
TINEYE.COM
TINEYE.COM
Source: http://bit.ly/2mlJ2Ne
IZITRU.COM
IZITRU
YOUTUBE DATA VIEWER
DOWNSUB.COM
SOURCE: HTTP://FR.NECROPEDIA.ORG/NECROLOGIE/PAUL_KAGAME
FAKE
WHOIS.DOMAINTOOLS.COM
TRAIN YOUR EYE
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Source: FB User Peter Bastian, http://bit.ly/2pPTeTp
Flickr user Gudrun Graeber, http://bit.ly/2q0ZUcD
Flickr user: Ulli J., http://bit.ly/2pQ7NGA
