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NewsTrust dives into the fact-check business with expanded Truthsquad
Just in time for the 2012 elections, the cottage industry of media fact-checking is ramping up. That latest addition is Truthsquad, which began last year as a pilot project of NewsTrust. TruthSquad will differentiate itself from its peers by bringing in the crowd, combining the talents of professional journalists with the eagerness (if not competitiveness) of the public to separate fact from less-than fact. As the Truthsquad homepage puts it, they’re ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold, Nieman Journalism Lab, David Cohn, Google News (Fact Check), Mark Pegrum (t), Johan Jessen (t), Rachel Fus (t), barbara trummpinski-roberts (t), Kaizar Campwala (t), Joey Baker (t), Matthew Nadler (t)
