The local elections are just around the corner in Turkey. We are going to the polls on March 31 for the 14th time during the 17-year-old AK Party government.
"Factory" a Google-inspired "design sprint" to develop and quickly prototype ideas for solving some of the challenges that fact-checkers struggle with.
False information and fake news captured the headlines in 2018. The report published in April by Open Society revealed that media literacy is quite low in Turkey and the society is vulnerable to fake news. According to the report of Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published in June, people who reported that they are exposed to fake news the most was from Turkey which made the country the leader among 37 countries. One of the world’s most popular digital dictionaries, Dictionary.com chose “misinformation” as the word of the year in November.
In the first episode of our “Urban Myths” mini-documentary series, we investigate the roots of the “Lake Van Monster” story and the role media played in spreading the myth.
Information disorder is scrutinized through three definitions in line with the new framework :dis-information, mis-information, mal-information.
Our followers directed various criticisms on our article published on November 7, 2018 about the claim that the wife of President Erdoğan, Emine Erdoğan made a wrong move in a chess game. It was claimed in the photo shared on social media that Emine Erdoğan made a wrong move while playing chess, and the related photo was shared a thousand times on the news sites and social media.
In today's world where the use of the Internet becomes widespread, do people really like to see or be interested in watching graphic images?
The doyenne photographer, Ara Güler struggled with diseases for a long time and occasionally received treatment before his death. News about his health status reflected in the press stirred editors of teyit.org on Wednesday night, October 17.
Teyit received numerous reports about the elections during the period that followed the snap vote announcement. On the election day, reports were by and large concerned with the alleged fraud cases at polling stations. Claims generally included information regarding ballot stuffing, physical and psychological intimidation of observers, preventing observers from attending the elections at polling stations, and vote rigging.
