PolitiFact Plugin: The Remedy for Disinfomation, Misinformation and CCJ?
For those of you wondering if journalism is either dead, or lying on the rug, coughing up blood … check out these 10 new data-journalism tools that just got funded by the Knight Foundation.
Of particular interest here, to those of us in the fact-based world, is the PolitiFact plug-in that allows you to click on a site that’s spreading BS (oh hai! CCJ) and automatically request a review of the veracity of the contents. Guessing that Dim Jim Hoft alone will be causing mouse buttons to wear out across America.
Think of it as a Downding for the entire web.