Fact Checkers Embrace Code of Principles

The Washington Post reported that “fact-checking organizations from nearly 30 countries have signed onto a statement of principles” to ensure “that they adhere to a non-partisan, fair-minded and transparent approach to evaluating the claims of politicians.” Each organization agrees to nonpartisanship, fairness, honesty with corrections, and full transparency with sources, funding, organization, and methods. This is a major victory for those at war with fake news. These kinds of agreements will help organize a standard for how to deal with fake news and how to report honest unbiased journalism. PolitiFact and Snopes were among those that signed the agreement, with more signatures still to come later. [1 image, 3 links, 2 quotations, 106 words]