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RT starts FakeCheck to battle scourge of fake news spreading in social media

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benjipwns

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In a post-truth world, it's sometimes hard to distinguish between what is real and what is fake news. RT's new special project, FakeCheck, helps you to separate fact from fiction and transit into a post-fake reality.

With the proliferation of social media channels, few people find or have the time to dig into the source of information they are being fed through their Facebook and Twitter feeds. Unknowingly and against their will, they often fall prey to hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation masquerading as real news.
So if you stumble on a news story that just looks like it is out of this world, head over to RT's FakeCheck – a special project dedicated to cutting through the bias, inaccuracies, misinformation and outright falsehoods in major news stories.

FakeCheck is an interactive, easy-to-use multimedia portal that breaks down popular news stories in an easily-digestible manner, covering both serious topics and viral hits.

In an interview to RNS news outlet, answering a question on whether it is impossible to fight the spread of unreliable information, RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said: ”Not exactly. We are taking action. In particular, we've launched the Fakecheck project. We will debunk fakes that are extensively distributed across the mainstream media."

Someone – the Washington Post, for example – will write some complete nonsense, and then the whole world reprints it! Say, when the newspaper wrote about a hacking attack on a US electricity network, for which Russia was allegedly responsible. It was alleged that Russian hackers broke into the American power grid through a power company. One had been under the impression that the whole of America would plunge into darkness. Yet later, the energy company denied the information. It turned out that only one laptop of the company was infected, and it was not even connected to the general network.

”And yet, it all remains in the public mind as an actual fact, even if [...] a refutation was later issued. Therefore, we are launching this project so that such things are debunked. It is clear that there must be more such projects, of course," Simonyan said.

"With today's overabundance of sources and prevalence of social media streams in news delivery, misinformation can spread like wildfire, with unverified reports, rumors, and outright falsehoods getting serious news treatment," RT's Deputy Head of News Andrey Kiyashko said in a press statement. ”RT's new project helps you separate fact from fake."

ABOUT PROJECT
FACTS ARE THE FIRST VICTIMS OF INFORMATION WARS. WITH TODAY'S OVERABUNDANCE OF SOURCES AND PREVALENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA STREAMS IN NEWS DELIVERY MISINFORMATION CAN SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE, WITH UNVERIFIED REPORTS, RUMORS AND OUTRIGHT FALSEHOODS GETTING SERIOUS NEWS TREATMENT. RT HELPS YOU SEPARATE FACT FROM FAKE.

The project has nearly unanimous support in the comments:
Should be regular monthly report to update fake news with documented sources that we can reference and spew back at the MSM at every opportunity!
RT is spot-on with this. The purpose, however, of 'fake' news is already largely achieved if not challenged immediately and so a 'rapid response' approach would be important. RT's budget should be increased across the board in any case. It would be well spent money, specifically with respect to the 'fakeCheck' concept.
These kind of fake news are disgusting. The journalists who fabricated these fake news have no sense of decency nor professionalism.
they are not the first, but first source that I can trust really, and first focused on the news.
If a lie is more profitable as the truth it will be represented as the truth. Like 911, in reality an international conspiracy involving the top layers of the Establishment could not be debunked by RT. Only PressTv has scratched the surface a little bit. Although it was Dimitri Khalezov who did explain everything what happened that day.
The label "FakeCheck" is associated with controlled media of west and false "proves" easily debunked.
I think its a tactical error to use that label by RT.
sorry i confused "fakecheck" with "factcheck"
Maybe other do the same confusion ?
 

Boney

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RT America is the only palatable media channel and I'm on board with this. The WP gaffe of quoting PropOrNot is a much more egregious example of shoddy journalism
 

Pedrito

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methane47

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”Someone – the Washington Post, for example – will write some complete nonsense, and then the whole world reprints it! Say, when the newspaper wrote about a hacking attack on a US electricity network, for which Russia was allegedly responsible. It was alleged that Russian hackers broke into the American power grid through a power company.

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are they serious lol that is an extremely interesting example of "fake news" lol
 

Boney

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The RT Paradox is a funny one.

http://theconversation.com/can-a-ru...-actually-promote-free-press-in-the-u-s-54620
But RT America has some inherent contradictions: it offers a “Russian state perspective” in its news programming while simultaneously airing some of the most progressive shows on U.S. cable. As Julia Ioffe writes in the Columbia Journalism Review, RT America often acts as a “shrill propaganda outlet” for the Kremlin – an identity that clashes with its desire to compete in the international news market.

At the same time, according to Ioffe, RT America understands that in order to effectively compete with other progressive, unbiased networks, it needs “to be taken seriously.” This realization, she explains, has led to some good reporting.

It’s a crazy notion – and a bit mind-boggling to consider – but RT America might be offering some of the most progressive, uncensored cable media programming in the U.S. today.

Certainly some will not be able to look past the paradox that a nation that has one of the lowest scores on the press freedom index could also be funding a valuable alternative to mainstream cable news.

While skeptics may think that these shows can’t possibly be free of Kremlin influence, many of the top-billed hosts for RT America – Larry King, Jesse Ventura, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz – all share a history of being independent thinkers.

And US media doesn't fare any better at being literally paid propaganda.

Amy Goodman's static
No one asks anchors on NBC how it feels to work for a weapons contractor. Numerous studies, including one out of the University of Michigan, have shown that the link between GE and NBC has led to biased reporting.

Not only is the U.S. media influenced by corporatations; it’s also influenced by the federal government.

In 2006, journalists Amy and David Goodman reported that “Under the Bush administration, at least 20 federal agencies … spent $250 million creating hundreds of fake television news segments that [were] sent to local stations.” They also documented how the government paid journalists in Iraq for positive reporting, and provided canned videos to air on cable news.

Given these examples of political and corporate influence on mainstream networks, it is worth wondering why RT gets criticized for bias while other networks get a free pass.
 

MarionCB

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Interesting they called it FakeCheck rather than Fact Check. The fact that the check itself will be fake bullshit is baked into the name.
 

benjipwns

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And US media doesn't fare any better at being literally paid propaganda.

Amy Goodman's static
ONDCP did it better:
In the spring of 1998, the ONDCP began offering additional advertising dollars to networks that embedded anti-drug messages in their programming. They developed an accounting system to decide which network shows would be valued and for how much. Receiving advance copies of scripts, they assigned financial value to each show's anti-drug message. Then they would suggest ways that the networks could increase the payments they would get. The WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards Rick Mater admitted, "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."[22]

Running the campaign for the ONDCP was Alan Levitt, who estimated that between 1998 and 2000 the networks received nearly $25 million in benefits.[22]

One example was with Warner Brothers' show, Smart Guy. The original script portrayed two young people using drugs at a party. Originally depicted as cool and popular, after input from the drug office, "We showed that they were losers and put them [hidden away to indulge in shamed secrecy] in a utility room. That was not in the original script."[22]

Other shows including ER, Beverly Hills, 90210, Chicago Hope, The Drew Carey Show and 7th Heaven also put anti-drug messages into their stories.
 
Maybe they just want to hand Trump talking points as the Kremlingate scandal develops.

Looking forward to the early morning tweets.
 

Boney

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So what you're saying is your opinion gets the RT FakeCheck seal of approval.
What I'm saying is that their editorial shows are good content, and like any other media one has to be able to discriminate the content offered.

RT America (not Russia Today) offers content that you won't find in corporate media. There's an intellectual push that gives air to conversations about the death of the arts and public displays of violence like poverty or prostitution. Corporate Media has been consolidated into the hands of a handful corporations with their own interests and are rife with yellow journalism.
 

Kthulhu

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What I'm saying is that their editorial shows are good content, and like any other media one has to be able to discriminate the content offered.

RT America (not Russia Today) offers content that you won't find in corporate media. There's an intellectual push that gives air to conversations about the death of the arts and public displays of violence like poverty or prostitution. Corporate Media has been consolidated into the hands of a handful corporations with their own interests and are rife with yellow journalism.

RT is part of Russia Today. You are supporting the propaganda arm of a country that meddled in our election.

If Brightbart had funny comics would you still read them?
 

Pedrito

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The RT Paradox is a funny one.

http://theconversation.com/can-a-ru...-actually-promote-free-press-in-the-u-s-54620


And US media doesn't fare any better at being literally paid propaganda.

Amy Goodman's static

They adopt the "progressive" point of view when it suits them. To show that the West is turning to shit because of neoliberal policies, imperialism, Clinton, whatever.

Then 5 minutes, later, they'll have a pseudo expert explaining how there's pretty a much a civil war in Europe because of liberal immigration policies.

Then 5 minutes later, another pseudo expert will explain how immigrants are treated very badly in the West.

And then it will be about how western imperialism caused the refugee crisis.

Even if there's some truth here and there in what they're saying, the point of the whole thing is to cater to the angry westerner who feels that everything is turning to shit in his/her country, either because of progressive or conservative policies. That's why RT is really popular among both the fringe left and the fringe right.
 

Kyzer

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And US media doesn't fare any better at being literally paid propaganda.

Ummm yes it does? The media doesnt meet with washington every week to be censored and guided on content. Our "media" that you are alluding to being some tentacled propaganda machine are a bunch of fucking communications majors, they dont even make a lot of money.
 
What I'm saying is that their editorial shows are good content, and like any other media one has to be able to discriminate the content offered.

RT America (not Russia Today) offers content that you won't find in corporate media. There's an intellectual push that gives air to conversations about the death of the arts and public displays of violence like poverty or prostitution. Corporate Media has been consolidated into the hands of a handful corporations with their own interests and are rife with yellow journalism.
And RT is literally in one hand, proposing the interests of Russia.

Your argument is pretty bad.
 

Boney

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They adopt the "progressive" point of view when it suits them. To show that the West is turning to shit because of neoliberal policies, imperialism, Clinton, whatever.

Then 5 minutes, later, they'll have a pseudo expert explaining how there's pretty a much a civil war in Europe because of liberal immigration policies.

Then 5 minutes later, another pseudo expert will explain how immigrants are treated very badly in the West.

And then it will be about how western imperialism caused the refugee crisis.

Even if there's some truth here and there in what they're saying, the point of the whole thing is to cater to the angry westerner who feels that everything is turning to shit in his/her country, either because of progressive or conservative policies. That's why RT is both really popular among the fringe left and the fringe right.
This is the crux of the matter with RT and hence the paradox. It's able to be independently financed because the editorial line that is not shy of denouncing power serves the Geopolitical interests of Russian. But at the same time, the independent editorial really doesn't compromise itself when reporting, so if what they air is truthful and poignant, then it deserves to be scrutinized by its own merits past the funding it receives.

My favorite show is on it is On Contact. Here are the last stories and there's nothing wrong with them.

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Joni

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I think it is a good thing. It is important to know what news is made up to suit the political agenda and which is the real truth.
And thanks to RT, I will be able to see that by only listening to what they call out as fake.
 
This is the crux of the matter with RT and hence the paradox. It's able to be independently financed because the editorial line that is not shy of denouncing power serves the Geopolitical interests of Russian. But at the same time, the independent editorial really doesn't compromise itself when reporting, so if what they air is truthful and poignant, then it deserves to be scrutinized by its own merits past the funding it receives.

My favorite show is on it is On Contact. Here are the last stories and there's nothing wrong with them.

It's not independently financed, though, is it? Isn't it financed almost entirely by Russia?
 

BasicMath

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RT America is the only palatable media channel and I'm on board with this. The WP gaffe of quoting PropOrNot is a much more egregious example of shoddy journalism
No. They have some good stuff scattered messily throughout but they're as bad as US media. Difference being that one is a puppet of a foreign hostile state and the other is a puppet of big business and their own government's political establishment.

You still have to filter that shit out.
 

Pomerlaw

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RT is 100% russian propaganda.

There are NEVER negative news against the power in place on RT.

They are full of shit.
 
If I want good, incisive programming that speaks truth to Western power but also isn't directly serving the interests of a dictator, I can listen to NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, a zillion podcasts, and even the BBC.

I'm sure FakeCheck will tell us all about which stories about Trump are made up by sore loser Democrats, and which stories about Putin are smear jobs by Western imperialists who want to take down a local superhero that just wants to stick up for traditional values.
 
I often wonder how popular RT actually is. On their YouTube account, almost all of their 'most popular videos' are viral videos and nothing to do with politics.
 
Glad they can finally set the record straight on Israelis shooting down MH17. There's been waaaaay too much fake news implicating Russia on that. Question More.
 
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