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[7] Because of negative rulings by fact-checking sites and user trust surveys, Western Journalism was blacklisted by Google and Apple News, and by 2017 its Facebook traffic declined to near zero. [7] In February 2019, The Western Journal published an article which alleged "Climate Change 'Heat Records' Are a Huge Data Manipulation."
WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) is an American far-right [1] news and opinion website. It is known for promoting fake news [2] and conspiracy theories, [3] including the false claim that former President Barack Obama was born outside the United States.
Also in 2017, PoliticusUSA published a story that claimed "the Russians" had created a fake Bernie Sanders Facebook fan page, a story The Observer described as "fake news". [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In 2018, PoliticusUSA re-reported a story from The Guardian that alleged Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange in the embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom ...
Following criticism of Facebook in the context of fake news around the 2016 United States presidential election, Facebook recognized that Wikipedia already had an established process for fact-checking. [4] Facebook's subsequent strategy for countering fake news included using content from Wikipedia for fact-checking.
Since November 2014, FactCheck.org has published twenty-eight pages of articles checking the facts on the many 2016 presidential candidates. [18] As of April 2016, the five remaining candidates had dedicated archives to their fact-checked claims. In 2016, FactCheck.org became a fact-checking partner of Facebook. [3] [19]
In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described Media Research Center as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook disputed the study's methodology. [54] [55]
In 2018, NewsWhip identified The Daily Wire as "by far" the top right-wing publisher on Facebook. [17] According to NewsWhip, The Daily Wire was the sixth-leading English-language publisher on Facebook in 2019 through the month of March. The site also had the second most articles among Facebook's 10,000 top stories. [18]
HKBU Fact Check (https://factcheck.hkbu.edu.hk/home/): a project by the School of Communication and Film at Hong Kong Baptist University. HKBU Fact Check is a signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network's codes of principles. [53] [54] HKBU Fact Check is indexed by Duke Reporter's Lab. [10]