NewsGuard Academy: Why NewsGuard Cares So Much About Corrections
Nobody’s perfect. Today’s tutorial unpacks one of NewsGuard’s nine standards of credibility and transparency that we use to assess news websites — whether a site has effective practices for correcting errors. We explain the importance of issuing transparent notices when errors arise, and why making mistakes and correcting them in a timely manner is an essential component of a site’s credibility. Sure, we all make mistakes. But it’s how we deal with them that truly matters.
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.