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Three news outlets, including Wisconsin Watch, are participating in a pilot project to push back on misinformation surrounding the 2022 midterm elections.
The pilot project with the newly launched Gigafact focuses on rapidly responding to claims that spread misinformation, attack election integrity or election officials or which promote voter suppression or intimidation.
Also participating in the project are the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and The Nevada Independent,
You can read 140-word fact briefs related to the upcoming election or request a fact check on the home page of wisconsinwatch.org or at this link.
As members of the Gigafact network, the newsrooms swiftly identify unsubstantiated claims circulating on social media regarding the states’ campaigns and elections, then contribute no-frills fact briefs to correct the record. Gigafact works to get these fact briefs seen by the public and searchable through the moderation processes of the major social and search platforms.
“These regional and local nonprofit newsrooms are doing amazing work reporting on important democratic issues,” said Chandran Sankaran, founder of Gigafact. “We want to help them find new pathways to bring this authoritative knowledge into social media to intercept baseless claims before they have a chance to...
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