What we shoud know about Vera Files?
Vera Files is a non-profit online news organization in the Philippines, founded in March 2008 by Veteran Filipino Journalists - focusing on investigative journalism and in-depth reporting of Philippine social issues.
Vera Files Founders: Ellen Tordesillas, Luz Rimbang, Booma Cruz, Jennifer Santiago, Yvonne Chua and Chit Estella. Its website: Verafiles.org
In 2017, Vera Files became the first news organization in the Philippines to be accredited into the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network. The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit school for Journalism located in St. Peterburg Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper.
In April 2018, Facebook tapped Vera Files and Rappler to be part of its third-party Fact-Checking program in the Philippines. The program aims to help Facebook flag or identify false news stories shared by people on its social media platform.
Facebook Pages that share false news stories repeatedly will also be seen less on people's news feeds. The program according to Vera Files announcements is in line with Facebook's three-part framework to improve the quality and authenticity of stories in the news feed.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera.Files
What we should know about Rappler?
Rappler is an online news website based in the Philippines with a bureau in Jakarta, Indonesia. Its headquarters is in Pasig, Philippines. It started as a Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011 and later evolved into a full-blown website on January 1, 2012 along with web based text news content. It was also among the first news websites in the Philippines to extensively use online multimedia including video, pictures, text and audio. It also uses social media sites for news distribution.
Maria Ressa is one of Rappler's founders and presently Rappler's CEO. Rappler is a postmanteau of the words "rap" (to discuss) and "ripple" (to make waves). Its website: www.rappler.com
Why Mark Zuckerberg tapped Rappler as one of Facebook's Fact-Checkers? Does he know it that Rappler is identified as biased and a FakeNews publisher not just in Philippines but also in the International communities?
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