How to Fact-Check Like a Journalist with First Draft's Laura Garcia

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Fact-checking isn’t just for professional journalists. With so much misinformation around COVID-19, how can you check the facts for yourself? Multimedia journalist Laura Garcia from First Draft walks us through how she fact-checked a viral video of an "escaped coronavirus patient" using free tools on the internet.

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Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.

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We definitely need more content like this. Keep it up PBS!

JoshDoesTravel

What Take on Fake is doing is SO important right now. I’m sharing with everyone. Thank you!

corwin

Came here from It's Ok to Be Smart. Glad I did, this was real interesting. Crash Course calls it Lateral Navigating if I remember well, because it asks us to navigate the web laterally by opening multiple tabs and switching between them in a lateral movement instead of just scrolling up and down that one page with the sensational info :D

CG_Hali

Great job, @hari. I'm a regular NewsHour viewer, and I love your new project. Of course, is the best. Kudos to Judy. See you soon. #TakeOnFake #PBSNEWS

vinkoivomilicdiaz

Super sleuthing tools for checking facts. So well presented that I feel fairly confident using them myself. Looking forward to more of Take on Fake.

clappcats

This is great! Thank you so much for doing all these online detective work. There is so much fake stuff online these days. Doing something about it has to be a revolutionary act. Goerge Orwell said it well: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth Is a revolutionary act."

richardnsalvador

All you had to do to tell that the video didn't take place in Italy was look at the license plates on the cars. Italian license plates are like long strips.
The type of license plates in the video typically are only found in the Americas.

equesdeventusoccasus

Thank you so much for doing this.
Unless we tackle disinformation directly, I fear for our democracy.

Stay safe and Healthy

StephsGarageJewelry

Thank you, Hari! I'm going to share this with my students!

msenglish

The USDOT style pedestrian sign was also a huge giveaway.

klumpytheklown

Why would anyone even want to believe that two hospital staff would be running behind a patient by themselves no security no one else following?

apes

Now all we need is for journalists to actually do this kind of investigative work instead of putting out poorly-checked misinformation. Sadly, almost nothing in how our media operates today is set up for that. :(

bevanfindlay

2:29 "I found it on 9GAG"
"Now, that's a name I've not heard in a very long time"

AntonWongVideo

At first glance the video looked like it was from North America. Just from the way the streets and the cars looked, the traffic lights. Electric lines above ground are not common in the EU.

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