Who finances the Fact Checkers, the sbufalatori? But look what a surprise …
Open Online, the den of the famous sbufalatori used by Facebook and which are based on the research of a well-known surveyor expert not in metric calculation, but in the evaluation of university professors, put the following sentence in each of their "Sbufalati" online, who knows why in English :
Open.online is working with the CoronaVirusFacts / DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers who are fighting misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about the alliance here (in English) .
An Italian site that puts a warning in English is not writing to make itself understood by Italians, but to make itself understood by someone else. Who is this huge Corona Virus Alliance anyway ? The Poynter Institute e, which deals with “Keeping the press free for democracy” and which wants to create a sort of global network of fact checkers. In short, he wants to check the truth, remaining quietly in the rear. Very smart.
Who pays? Well, several foundations. For example, in 2017 it was the Open Fundation that paid, that of Soros with 1.3 million. In 2020, the biggest financiers were Facebook, with $ 2,785,500 and Google, with $ 1,570,000. Practically Facebook, and Google, but also Youtube, pay their fact checkers, the famous foxes guarding the chicken coop. I bet they will confirm the truths of whoever finances the hut: after all, the customer, it is known, is always right. But what happened in 2019 is even more interesting.
Funding in that year was rich and plentiful, with the first lender paying out more than $ 5,450,000 and the second contributing $ 1,500,000. The problem is that, out of carelessness, they forgot to indicate the names of the lenders themselves. Oops! It would take a serious fact checker to find out who I am …
On the other hand, doing fact checkers pays off very well, especially when you are part of the board of the journalism institute that wants to check the truth.
Chairing the BoD of sbufalatori in 2019 yielded 487 thousand dollars. Not bad, but there are still few for those who are custodians of the one Truth and who are in charge, in all the world, of distinguishing the true from the false without striking a blow.
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