Polygraph.info

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website-aggregator[2] produced by U.S. government-funded news organisations Voice of America (VoA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).[3] The website also exposes Russian disinformation and state-backed propaganda by Chinese government.[4]

Polygraph.info
Type of site
Fact-checking
Available inEnglish
OwnerVoice of America
Founder(s)Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
EditorFatima Tlisova
URLwww.polygraph.info
CommercialNo
Launched6 December 2016 (2016-12-06)[1]
Current statusActive
Written inHTML, JavaScript

Radio Free Europe funded a three person team at Polygraph.info until February 2017. The team was led by Daily Beast senior editor Michael Weiss.[5]

As of April 8, 2020, the project employed five people.[6] VoA journalist Jim Fry was its managing editor from November 2017 to November 2019.[7] Investigative journalist, researcher and Russian expert Fatima Tlisova also works at Polygraph.info.[8]: 76–77 

A partner website in the Russian language is factograph.info, a joint project of RFE/RL and VoA.[9]

References
  1. "Polygraph.info to speak truth to disinformation". U.S. Agency for Global Media. 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  2. Marcoux, Thomas; Mead, Esther; Agarwal, Nitin (2020). "Studying the Dynamics of COVID-19 Misinformation Themes" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University.
  3. Alex Lockie (26 February 2018). "'They beat our a--es': Russian mercenaries talk about humiliating defeat by US in reportedly leaked audio". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  4. Cull, N.J. (2016). R. Govers; N. Cull (eds.). Engaging foreign publics in the age of Trump and Putin: Three implications of 2016 for public diplomacy. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. Vol. 12. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 244. doi:10.1057/s41254-016-0052-4. ISSN 1751-8059.
  5. Michael Calderone (2 October 2017). "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Stops Funding Magazine Critical Of Russia". Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  6. Rajtmajer, Sarah; Susser, Daniel (2020-08-25). "Automated influence and the challenge of cognitive security". Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 3. doi:10.1145/3384217.3385615. ISBN 978-1-4503-7561-0.
  7. "Jim Fry". Online News Association. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  8. Čáslavská, Veronika (2019-05-01). "Tradiční média a boj s tzv. fake news na příkladu BBC, ARD a Rádia Svobodná Evropa" [Traditional media and the fight against so-called fake news on the example of the BBC, ARD and Radio Free Europe] (PDF). Charles University (in Czech). p. 77.
  9. "О проекте" [About the project]. factograph.info (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-06-29.
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