Polygraph.info

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Polygraph.info
Polygraph.info logo.png
Type of site
Fact-checking
Available inEnglish
Owner Voice of America
Founder(s) Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Editor Fatima Tlisova
URL www.voanews.com/fact-checks
CommercialNo
Launched6 December 2016;8 years ago (2016-12-06)
Current statusActive
Written inHTML, JavaScript

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website [1] produced by Voice of America (VoA). [2] Among many subjects, the website documents Russian disinformation and state-backed propaganda by the Chinese government. [3]

The website launched on December 6, 2016. [4] Radio Free Europe funded a three-person team at Polygraph.info until February 2017. The team was led by Daily Beast senior editor Michael Weiss. [5]

According to a 2018 article in Government Executive , by providing fact-checks in both English and Russian, VOA "builds on the success of its year-old Russian-language television network Current Time TV." [6]

As of April 2020, the project employed five people. [7] VoA journalist Jim Fry was its managing editor from November 2017 to November 2019. [8] Investigative journalist, researcher, and Russian expert Fatima Tlisova also works at Polygraph.info. [9] : 76–77 

References

  1. ↑ Marcoux, Thomas; Mead, Esther; Agarwal, Nitin (2020). "Studying the Dynamics of COVID-19 Misinformation Themes" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University . p. 2. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  2. ↑ Alex Lockie (26 February 2018). "'They beat our a--es': Russian mercenaries talk about humiliating defeat by US in reportedly leaked audio". Business Insider . Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  3. ↑ Cull, N.J. (2016). R. Govers; N. Cull (eds.). "Engaging foreign publics in the age of Trump and Putin: Three implications of 2016 for public diplomacy". Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. 12 (4). Palgrave Macmillan UK: 244. doi:10.1057/s41254-016-0052-4. S2CID   256514762. Archived from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  4. ↑ "Polygraph.info to speak truth to disinformation". U.S. Agency for Global Media . 2016-12-06. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  5. ↑ Michael Calderone (2 October 2017). "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Stops Funding Magazine Critical Of Russia". Huffington Post . Archived from the original on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "In the Era of Fake News, VOA Is Fact-Checking Russia's Messages". Government Executive. March 26, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2025. It's been a year since the U.S. government joined the ranks of Politifact, Factcheck.org and the Washington Post fact-checker in publishing dispassionate news analysis in the decisive ratings format: "true," "false," or "misleading." But its product—amplified in government-controlled foreign media environments through social media and video—focuses on what is now called 'disinfo news.'
  7. ↑ Rajtmajer, Sarah; Susser, Daniel (2020-08-25). "Automated influence and the challenge of cognitive security". Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security. New York, NY, USA: ACM. p. 3. doi:10.1145/3384217.3385615. ISBN   978-1-4503-7561-0. S2CID   221299169. Archived from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  8. ↑ "Jim Fry". Online News Association . Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  9. ↑ Čáslavská, Veronika (2019-05-01). "Tradiční média a boj s tzv. fake news na příkladu BBC, ARD a Rádia Svobodná Evropa" [Traditional media and the fight against so-called fake news on the example of the BBC, ARD and Radio Free Europe](PDF). Charles University (in Czech). p. 77. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2020-12-28.


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