Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/19
By: Christie Chen
Taipei, April 19 (CNA) A fact-checking center was announced in Taiwan on Thursday by
Hu Yuan-hui (胡元輝, right)
two local non-profit organizations with the aim of combating the spread of fake news and providing the public with reliable information.
The Taiwan Fact Checking Center is backed by media watch group Taiwan Media Watch, in collaboration with the Association for Quality Journalism, an organization that funds investigative and in-depth reporting.
“The issue of fake news has attracted global attention,” Hu Yuan-hui (胡元輝), head of the Association for Quality Journalism and a professor at National Chung Cheng University’s Department of Communication, said at a press conference to announce the establishment of the center.
He said a survey conducted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in over 30 countries last year showed that only 24 percent of respondents believed social media did a good job of helping them separate fact from fiction, and only 40 percent said the mainstream media did a good job in that regard. [FULL STORY]
