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Sparks fly: workers produce steel at a small plant in Shenyang, northeast China. EPA/MARK

June 14, 2017

Fact Check: is China dumping steel?

Ian Greenwood, University of Leeds

Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.

May 24, 2017

Fact Check: do the police spend over a million hours a year fighting cannabis?

Andromachi Tseloni, Nottingham Trent University

The figures don't really add up.

February 16, 2017

How we do FactChecks at The Conversation

Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation

We build in extra checks and balances, including blind peer review by a second academic expert, additional scrutiny and editorial oversight.

Divided we fall. AAP/Reuters/The Conversation

February 16, 2017

Help us restore trust in experts

Charis Palmer, The Conversation

We’re keen to collaborate with more Australian media organisations to help restore some of the trust we’ve all lost.

Lying means you’re actually concerned about the truth. 'Trump' via www.shutterstock.com

January 27, 2017

Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous

Lauren Griffin, University of Florida

Inflating his own grand persona is Trump's sole goal, and he doesn't care whether or not you believe him.

The Conversation published 29 FactChecks over the eight week federal election campaign. Mick Tsikas/AAP

December 26, 2016

Year in Review: FactCheck and the weasel-words, cherry-picking and overstatements of 2016

Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Lucinda Beaman, The Conversation

Bald-faced lies are fairly rare in Australian politics but, in 2016, weasel-words and cherry-picking were common. Politicians and public figures are experts at disguising opinion and ideology as fact.

December 2, 2016

Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship

Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University

If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?

Facebook has received a lot of scrutiny since the presidential election. Dado Ruvic/Reuters

November 17, 2016

Facebook’s problem is more complicated than fake news

R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University

Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there's something built into Facebook's anatomy that foments partisan rage.

April 20, 2016

Fact Check: do the Treasury’s Brexit numbers add up?

Nauro Campos, Brunel University London

New report says households will be £4,300 worse off if we leave the EU. Here's the verdict.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fields questions from reporters in Dover, New Hampshire. Brian Snyder/Reuters

April 5, 2016

When covering elections, journalists face a debilitating dilemma

Justin Buchler, Case Western Reserve University

A partisan media landscape has made it almost impossible for journalists to avoid charges of bias when calling out a candidate's dishonesty.

Is it possible to combat disinformation spread by Donald Trump? EPA/Erik S. Lesser

March 23, 2016

How to inoculate people against Donald Trump’s fact bending claims

John Cook, The University of Queensland and Margaret Crane, The University of Queensland

Donald Trump has been known to spread misinformation. This gives us a great opportunity to hone our critical thinking skills.

Tertiary education is of both private and significant public benefit. AAP Image/Julian Smith

January 29, 2015

Fact Check: is tertiary education of private benefit?

Tim Pitman, Curtin University

I’ve always argued that tertiary education is a private benefit, I’m happy for taxpayer funding of primary and secondary education but tertiary education results in a higher salary. - Senator David Leyonhjelm…

To find out if the carbon price worked, you have to look at the electricity sector. Paul Hocksenar/Flickr

January 21, 2015

FactCheck: did carbon emissions fall faster before the carbon price?

Peter Christoff, University of Melbourne

Emissions fell by six times the rate in the five years before the carbon tax than they did under the carbon tax. – Environment minister Greg Hunt, The Guardian, January 17, 2015. Australia’s total greenhouse…

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Mike Sandiford
Chair of Geology & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne
Peter Christoff
Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne
John Cook
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University
Tim Pitman
Researcher in Higher Education Policy, Curtin University
Gwilym Croucher
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
Jonathan Perraton
Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
Nauro Campos
Professor of Economics and Finance, Brunel University London
R. Kelly Garrett
Associate Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
Margaret Crane
Research and Innovation Officer, The University of Queensland
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Justin Buchler
Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
James Mehigan
Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University
Lauren Griffin
Director of External Research for frank, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
Ian Greenwood
Associate Professor in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, University of Leeds
Andromachi Tseloni
Professor of Quantitative Criminology, Nottingham Trent University