Factchecking on the Internet

Or:

How I prevent to make a fool of myself by not recognizing a fake news

The 15-Minute Check

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According to the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Tommaso De Benedetti is an Italian schoolteacher, who has gone about faking the identities of world leaders and news makers on Twitter to fool editors and journalists into publishing false stories. In an interview he gave with the paper in March of this year, he explained some of his reasoning:

“Social media is the most unverifiable information source in the world but the news media believes it because of its need for speed,” he said.

Credit : Guardian.co.uk

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namechk.comChecks if a username or vanity url is still

available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites.

IceRocket.comIceRocket is an Internet search

engine which specializes in real-time search.

How about the weather?

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Thanks and credits for inspiration and the “15-Minuten-Check” concept to Jan Eggers’ presentation at Netzwerk Recherche Jahreskonferenz 2013: Quellencheck im Netz, published under a Creative Commons BY-SA license