--- title: "Fact-Checkers Work Toward Launching New Association" id: "23635" type: "post" slug: "fact-checkers-work-toward-launching-new-association" published_at: "2014-06-13T13:30:03+00:00" modified_at: "2026-03-16T04:17:14+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2014/06/13/fact-checkers-work-toward-launching-new-association/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2014/06/13/fact-checkers-work-toward-launching-new-association.md" excerpt: "Attendees of Poynter's Global Fact-Checking Summit in London voted this week to launch a new association, with the goal of helping journalists work together on what can be a challenging line of work." taxonomy_category: - "Learning" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "fact-checking" - "journalism" - "Leadership" - "misinformation" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "Association CEO / Executive Director" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Fact-Checkers Work Toward Launching New Association In the age of the internet, accuracy is harder than ever to come by. So, it only makes sense that the fact-checkers of the world—working against a constant tide of misinformation from politicians, casual Twitter users, and rumor-mongers—would want to unite. The Poynter Institute, a nonprofit educational organization that focuses on the journalism community, held an event in London this week with the goal of bringing these fact-checkers from around the world under a single roof. And by the time the Global Fact-Checking Summit ended on Tuesday, the attendees had voted to launch an association of their own. “The meeting showed there is a passionate community of fact-checkers that is growing around the world,” said Duke University professor Bill Adair, a Poynter faculty member, [according to a news article on the organization’s website (opens in a new tab)](http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/255372/fact-checkers-plan-international-organization/) . “The association will keep the fact-checkers in touch with each other and help them learn from each other.” ### A Global Movement Adair knows a thing or two about this need. See, he’s the founder of perhaps the best-known of the world’s fact-checking websites, [PolitiFact (opens in a new tab)](http://www.politifact.com/) , a site that launched while he was a bureau chief at the then-*St. Petersburg Times*. (The publication, owned by Poynter, changed its name to the *Tampa Bay Times* in 2012. We made sure to fact-check that.) But PolitiFact is far from the only such site out there. The Italian media outlet [Pagella Politica (opens in a new tab)](https://pagellapolitica.it/) , the Ukrainian site [StopFake.org (opens in a new tab)](http://www.stopfake.org/) (which has been working to correct misinformation about the crisis in the region), and the British site [Full Fact (opens in a new tab)](https://fullfact.org/) are only a few examples. The summit [drew dozens of attendees (opens in a new tab)](http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/255073/at-fact-checking-summit-we-hope-courage-is-contagious/) from 21 countries and six continents. That doesn’t mean they agree on everything, however: A hot topic, according to Poynter, was whether rating systems such as PolitiFact’s “[Truth-O-Meter (opens in a new tab)](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/) ” and the *Washington Post*‘s “[Pinocchio Test (opens in a new tab)](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/about-the-fact-checker/#pinocchio) ” benefit readers or the public. The jury’s still out on that one. (iStock/Thinkstock) [Ernie Smith](https://associationsnow.com/author/ernie-smith/) Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now. 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