FRANKFURT, Dec 13 — A growing tide of government-friendly and politically influenced fact-checking projects in Europe is making it harder for citizens to tell truth from...
Government 'fact-checking' websites have bloomed under Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. — Reuters picas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use codeFRANKFURT, Dec 13 — A growing tide of government-friendly and politically influenced fact-checking projects in Europe is making it harder for citizens to tell truth from propaganda, disinformation experts warn, with a new Russian initiative the latest to raise eyebrows.
In Hungary, the newly launched Faktum “fact-checking” website — backed by pro-government newspaper Mandiner — publishes articles that predominantly try to defend the government and criticise its opponents. Tabak himself is under US sanctions for attempting to influence this year’s US presidential election, including through the creation of bot accounts designed to spread disinformation on social media platforms.
Signatories to the IFCN, and to its European counterpart EFCSN, are regularly vetted by external assessors and must comply with a code of principles that includes transparency of sources, funding and methodology, as well as a commitment to political non-partisanship. Observers say there is nothing new about political parties or governments trying to wade into fact-checking, nor is it limited to authoritarian countries, with examples in recent years also seen in Greece, Croatia and Spain.
“Basically they say ‘in our reality this is a fact’, and in your reality it’s fiction,” Yablokov said.
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