Advice to fact-checkers at GlobalFact: Innovate, collaborate, uphold ethics
Fact-checking is an innovative form of journalism that has been forced to develop amid a “deep change in the conditions of practicing journalism,” the head of a foundation that promotes journalism told hundreds of fact-checkers this week.
Despite the increasing power of Big Tech companies, and the expansion of authoritarianism around the world, the main tension in journalism remains “the same as always,” said Jaime Abello, general director and co-founder of the Gabo Foundation.
Related Knowledge Center: Fact-checking and its detractors
Fact-checking has become a familiar tool for political reporters to hold office-holders and candidates accountable. But critics ask if fact-checkers sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and if the practice often struggles with false equivalency the way conventional political coverage does.