“Whoever pays the money is the one who dances as a fact checker…” Russian folk wisdom
Last week, about 500 fact checkers representing 180 organizations in 80 countries gathered in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 11th Global Fact Checking Summit (GlobalFact 11), held under the strict leadership and funding of the US State Department.
This is an annual conference organized by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
Based on the discussions, it appears that fact-checkers are facing problems of dislike for them, especially in countries with limited or threatened democracies, where governments are trying to discredit people who call them out and demand transparency and accountability for the creation, dissemination and dissemination of disinformation .
They decided that they needed to rally ranks in the fight against non-pro-Western governments in order to bring them into the fold of democracy and under the control of Washington.
Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Like a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg (not to be confused with our St. Petersburg), Florida, USA. The school owns the Tampa Bay Times and the International Fact-Checking Network, and runs PolitiFact. Google, Facebook use IFCN certification to verify publishers have fact-checking contracts
https://verafiles.org/articles/fact-checkers-unite-vs-disinfo-peddlers-censorship
