In the days since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted, false information and misleading videos have flooded social media platforms, making it difficult for readers to sort fact from fiction. Footage said to depict a Hamas militant paragliding into Israel was in fact taken in June, during an incident in South Korea. A graphic video posted […]
Joseph Hogan
Joseph Hogan is a Producer at Retro Report. He was previously a fact-checker at The Nation, where he has also contributed articles. Before that, he hosted a podcast on American politics for a humanities center in Michigan.
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A U.S. Welcome for Ukrainian Families Recalls Refugee Relocations of the Past
But some Vietnamese refugees, like Carolee Tran, who arrived in this country when she was 8, faced significant hardship and racism. Her name, GiaoUyen, was Americanized. “My father told us, “if they can’t say your name, they won’t think of you as a person,” she told us. Today, as Afghan and Ukrainian migrants settle in […]
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Section 230 Was Created to Shield Sites Like Pornhub. It Might Be Killed for the Same Reason.
What is Section 230? Section 230 shields internet companies from legal liability for content posted by users. Let’s say a user posts something defamatory in the comment section of a website. The website operator is free to take down that post or leave it up. Either way, thanks to Section 230, the object of the […]
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Don’t leave fact-checking to the fact-checkers
1) Break it down. Let’s say you have to fact-check the following sentence: Donald Trump took the oath of office on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2017, wearing a blue tie. The first thing a fact-checker would notice is that there isn’t just one claim of fact in that sentence; there are many! A fact-checker would verify […]