Baybars Örsek on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fact-Checking
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Baybars Örsek, the Director of the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute. Fact-checking has become newly prominent in recent years, as fact-checkers work to counter surges of online disinformation and misinformation. And it’s more important than ever right now in the middle of a pandemic, when incorrect information circulating online has immediate consequences for people’s health. Baybars has been on the front lines of fact-checking in recent years. Quinta and Evelyn spoke with him about the IFCN’s “Fact-Checkers’ Code of Principles,” Facebook’s partnership with fact-checkers for content shared on their platforms, and why fact-checking is important right now.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:55.6 | The fact-checking organization covers if not equally but at least fairly each political |
| 1:25.5 | party or candidate with their coverage and it doesn't mean that they need to have a false |
| 1:33.3 | balance in their verdicts but at least what we have been asking from our assessors is |
| 1:39.7 | that the organizations in our network, if they want to be certified and if they want |
| 1:44.9 | to be in the network, stay in the network, they have to have a fair selection process |
| 1:50.8 | and be able to communicate that with their readers so anyone can have this clear idea |
| 1:59.3 | why they fact-check a particular claim or why they fact-check a particular story and |
| 2:05.4 | whether there is any weight on one of those issues or claims more than others. |
| 2:13.9 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast March 26, 2020. |
| 2:21.6 | Welcome to another episode of the podcast's Arbiters of Truth Series on Disinformation. |
| 2:26.6 | This week, Evelyn Dwak and I spoke with Bybars Orsec, the director of the International |
| 2:31.3 | Fact Checking Network at the Pointer Institute. |
| 2:34.6 | Fact-checking has become newly prominent in recent years as fact-checkers work to counter |
| 2:38.7 | surges of online disinformation and misinformation and it's more important than ever right now |
| 2:44.0 | in the middle of a pandemic when incorrect information circulating online has immediate |
| 2:49.3 | consequences for people's health. |
| 2:52.1 | Bybars has been on the front lines of fact-checking in recent years. |
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