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Misinfo research @UniWestminster | Founder @AfricaCheck | Consultant | book “Fake news - what’s the harm?” due June 2025 | always @LFC
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Spotting the harmful needles in the haystack: How fact-checkers select what to check

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By Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Andrew Dudfield
| Poynter Online Verified
In July, the London-based fact-checking organization Full Fact used artificial intelligence tools to scan public debate in media and online. They identified an average of 240,437 pieces of content circulating each day that would be possible, for Full Fact or one of a dozen other fact-checking organizations that use its tools, to fact-check. Of course, not all false claims are of equal importance.
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Fake News - What’s the harm?

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By Peter Cunliffe-Jones
| fulcrum.org
Former news reporter and founder of Africa’s first fact-checking organisation Peter Cunliffe-Jones argues that since concern about ‘information disorder’ soared in 2016, we have laboured under flawed assumptions about the nature and effects of ‘fake news’ and misinformation. Based on a four-year review of 250 case studies, Cunliffe-Jones sets out four ideas for fact-checkers, policymakers and platforms to curb harmful consequences and protect wider freedom of speech.
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I helped write the rules

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By Peter Cunliffe-Jones
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Four years ago, Meta blocked Donald Trump from posting on Facebook after his false claims of election fraud helped foment the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. Now Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is “getting rid of fact-checkers” and switching to a system of X-style “Community Notes” in a bid to end “censorship”. “Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created,” Zuckerberg declared.
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