#JohnOlivier had a segment on #misinformation on non-English #language|s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jtFqWq5iU
Highly recommended, especially for people interested in #translation|s.
Main points:
* #Facebook 90% of its monthly users are non-English, but only 13% of fact checking.
* Major fact checking sites are mostly English.
* He mentioned Vietnamese Social movements trying to help:
- https://movementhub.org/resource/the-interpreter/
- https://www.the-interpreter.org
- https://vietfactcheck.org
Likely similar group for other languages.
@ashwinvis Direct funding by the government is also not ideal. Although it may work and be better than nothing.
In Germany we also have one national fact checker. Somehow with an English name Science Media Centre. I just checked the financing, was wondering whether it was the state, but it is mostly the legacy of a SAP software billionaire. https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/das-smc/finanzierung/
There is an International Fact-Checking Network, but I cannot find a list with its members. Would have given a good overview.
@TranslateScience Indeed, we need independent fact checking. If the state is involved it would be a conflict of interest in many cases, and could potentially involve propaganda.
@ashwinvis
I think @pratik can comment about what languages are covered by https://www.altnews.in/
@TranslateScience @subins2000
@ashwinvis There is altnews.in for English & Hindi. For Malayalam, 24 News channel has a segment for fake news debunking.
Gov of Kerala has a fact checker on Facebook. There are some private websites as well.
The latest Facebook revelations was wow! Their own report mentions their lack of Hindi/Bengali classifiers to detect hate speech.
@TranslateScience @praveen
@TranslateScience This was a brilliant episode and I can vouch that the remarks he made on what happens in India was precisely on the mark.
I don't know if there are any reputable, fact checking sites in native Indic languages. The one run by the Indian government https://nitter.net/PIBFactCheck itself is mostly in English and sometimes Hindi, obviously pretending no other languages matter🤦♂️.
@praveen @subins2000 maybe you know?