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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 ?