WHAT WE DO
Check out how we fact-check articles online.
FACT-CHECKING
PROCESS
How we choose the content to fact-check
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Red Flagged aims to cover a wide range of news stories. Thus, information would be gathered across numerous platforms and media. This would come in the form of official statements, images, video clips, voice recordings, as well as submissions/responses from the public.
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The publication staff would keep an eye on viral posts, stories, personalities, and the audience feedback. Fact-checking would be done through correlation of facts from these different sources.
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The fact-checking process shall be applied to specific details, which include, but are not limited to:
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Names, including honorific and event titles
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Statements (exact wording, primary source)
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Date and time
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Statistics, monetary value, and other numerical data
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Media content (images, video clips, audio recordings, infographics, etc.)
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Locations (Regions, Cities, Provinces, Towns, Street Names, Establishments, etc.)
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Factual details pertinent to the story
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The researcher-writers identify questionable claim/s in the sourced-out content.
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The claim/s is verified using validated information and necessary facts from credible sources that include, but are not limited to: official websites, published studies, official reports and documents, and articles from credible news sources.
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The content is rated based on Red Flagged’s rating system; fact-checking articles are drafted accordingly.
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Fact-checking articles are forwarded to respective section editors for checking, along with the gathered facts and details about the verifiable claim/s.
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The section editors proofread the articles and verify the rating of the sourced-out content in the fact-checked articles.
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Once approved, section editors forward the articles to the managing editor.
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The managing editor adopts the same process done by the section editors and cross-checks the articles if necessary.
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Once approved, the managing editor forwards the articles to the editor-in-chief.
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The editor-in-chief approves the fact-checking articles for posting.
HOW WE VERIFY
PUBLICATION
Red Flagged’s Art Director/s are responsible for posting fact-checking articles on the website. Subsequently the team’s Social Media Manager publicizes the articles on Red Flagged’s Facebook page for wider audience reach.
Our rating system consists of color-coded flags, with green being true, light red being partly false, and red being false, which brings the ratings’ total to three (3). We adapted the Color-coded system of ColumbiaCheck and adjusted parts of it in consideration with the theme and objectives of our fact-checking organization.
OUR RATING
SYSTEM
TRUE
All the information
presented is accurate.
PARTLY FALSE
Parts of the content are inaccurate.
This consists of six subcategories that specifically describe the partly false content.
MISATTRIBUTED or
MISCAPTIONED
Either the cause or origin of the issue stated in the content is incorrect, or the accompanying caption contains inaccuracies.
MISSING CONTEXT or
DECONTEXTUALIZED
The content may change the overall truth by not providing the whole context or by adding the wrong context.
MISLEADING or
DECEPTIVE
The content may contain inaccuracies that could mislead the audience, or it has the intention to deceive.
EXAGGERATED
The information presented may be overdramatized or sensationalized.
UNPROVEN
The content contains claims that cannot be proven by information from reliable sources, or there are still no currently available means to prove them.
FABRICATED or
ALTERED
Either the images, videos, audio recordings, or documents presented are modified, or the information contained by the content is only made up.
FALSE
All the information presented is false.