RIDERSBIKE-REPORTERS FACT CHECKING

Fact checking is a structured and methodical process used to ensure the accuracy of information.

This practice applies in particular to statements by politicians and news spread by the media, with the aim of uncovering errors, inaccuracies and lies.

The fact checking process is a fundamental practice to counter misinformation and ensure a public debate based on verified facts.

Fact checking has a strong civic value of controlling politics and the media, thanks to the ease of verification and control through the network.

Some useful tools for fact checking include Tools that help users verify information and news firsthand; unfortunately, some search engines include independent sources in their blacklists, labeling the news as fake.

These search engines should be boycotted considering that they behave in a censorious way towards the independent press (the one that does not really take money from publishing law, bodies, institutions, etc.), therefore also turn to other search engines and various search platforms to have reliable information.

Also be careful with those platforms that are exclusively dedicated to checking the facts because, as many users have reported, they are not always as independent as they say and several of them have in fact been discovered to be supported with money from politicians and lobbyists with the aim of downgrading reliable newspapers and sources, that is, those who try to provide serious information free from clientelistic opinions.

Checking the facts is a fundamental pillar for information, especially remembering that if a media, a blog or other, publishes content by passing it off as news, this is absolutely not correct behavior either towards users or towards those who carry out the professional activity of information from which they must derive economic support.