After being axed in May last year, ABC’s Fact Check is back after partnering with RMIT University. From The ABC:
The newly-branded RMIT ABC Fact Check will return in March to once again test and adjudicate on the accuracy of claims made by politicians, public figures, advocacy groups and institutions engaged in public debate…
RMIT ABC Fact Check will be based in Melbourne at RMIT’s new media precinct, which will open in March.
Dean of the University’s School of Media and Communication, Martyn Hook, said the nonpartisan, non-profit collaboration aimed to reduce the levels of deception and confusion around public policy issues and debates…
“In a time of ‘post-truth’, ‘alternative facts’ and ‘fake news’, it is ever more critical to hold public figures to account and ensure that public discourse — the basis of democracy — is based in fact…
RMIT ABC Fact Check will research and publish Fact Checks and Fact Files and restart the Promise Tracker.
Content will be published by the ABC and on a dedicated RMIT portal…
The ABC will retain final editorial control of, and responsibility for, all Fact Check content published by the ABC.
Excellent news.
