Science Feedback
Science Feedback (SF) is a fact-checking website (FCW) founded in September 2018 as a French Association déclarée by Emmanuel Vincent to parent several subsidiary FCWs, amongst which are Climate Feedback (CF) and Health Feedback (HF).
History[edit]
Science Feedback is one of Facebook's third-party fact-checking partners, and relies upon subject-matter experts to provide labels for stories shared on Facebook.[1] However, Facebook has removed a "false" label from a story after that story was designated an "opinion" piece.[1]
In January 2021 it was announced that Google through the Google News Initiative had selected SF (amongst others) to receive its disbursements.[2]
In a May 2021 "Feature", the BMJ stated that HF "handpicks scientists" to provide evaluations for the International Fact-Checking Network, citing an example where HF marked as "misleading" a February 2021 Wall Street Journal opinion column which predicted that the United States would achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 by April.[3]
On 26 May 2021 it was reported that the SF FCW had opined on the claim of Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier that "the novel coronavirus is man-made and contains genetic material from HIV" was "inaccurate".[4]
On 28 May 2021, Pranav Mukul in the Indian Express explained: "How new Facebook feature flags misinformation" and mentioned the SF FCW.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Heilweil, Rebecca (16 July 2020). "Elizabeth Warren wants answers on Facebook's fact-checking loophole". Vox Media.
- ↑ Scire, Sarah. "Google is giving $3 million to news orgs to fact-check vaccine misinformation". President and Fellows of Harvard College. Nieman Foundation.
- ↑ Clarke, Laurie (May 25, 2021). "Covid-19: Who fact checks health and science on Facebook?". doi:10.1136/bmj.n1170.
- ↑ "Fact-check: WhatsApp hoax claims Nobel laureate said all vaccinated people will die within 2 years". The Printers (Mysore) Private Ltd. Deccan Herald. 26 May 2021.
- ↑ Mukul, Pranav (28 May 2021). "Explained: How new Facebook feature flags misinformation". The Indian Express.
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