A Digital Fact-Checker Fights Fake News

摘要

For seven years, Storyful, a social media researcher in Dublin, has consulted for news outlets such as ABC and the Wall Street Journal, using a small team of reporters to try to keep those operations from embarrassing themselves online. Mostly, that's meant fact-checking viral media in real time, making sure a video floating around Twitter really shows, say,the latest barrel bomb explosion in Aleppo-rather than a roadside bomb in Homs-before it goes into a client's breaking-news post.