Polygraph.info

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website^[2] produced by Voice of America (VoA).^[3] Among many subjects, the website documents Russian disinformation and state-backed propaganda by the Chinese government.^[4]

Polygraph.info

Type of site	Fact-checking
Available in	English
Owner	Voice of America
Founder(s)	Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Editor	Fatima Tlisova
URL	www.polygraph.info
Commercial	No
Launched	6 December 2016; 7 years ago (2016-12-06)^[1]
Current status	Active
Written in	HTML, 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. from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
2. Marcoux, Thomas; Mead, Esther; Agarwal, Nitin (2020). "Studying the Dynamics of COVID-19 Misinformation Themes" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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. from the original on 11 April 2018. 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. 12 (4). Palgrave Macmillan UK: 244. doi:10.1057/s41254-016-0052-4. S2CID 256514762. from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
5. Michael Calderone (2 October 2017). "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Stops Funding Magazine Critical Of Russia". Huffington Post. from the original on 30 March 2018. 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. p. 3. doi:10.1145/3384217.3385615. ISBN 978-1-4503-7561-0. S2CID 221299169. from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
7. "Jim Fry". Online News Association. from the original on 2021-07-09. 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. (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
9. "О проекте" [About the project]. factograph.info (in Russian). from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2021-06-29.

External links

• Official website