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Vera Files
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Vera Files
Motto Truth is our business
Formation March 2008; 12 years ago
Founders Ellen Tordesillas
Luz Rimban
Booma Cruz
Jennifer Santiago
Yvonne Chua
Chit Estella
President Ellen Tordesillas
Affiliations International Fact-Checking Network
Website verafiles.org
Vera Files (stylized as VERA Files) is a non-profit online news organization in the Philippines.
It was founded in March 2008 by veteran Filipino journalists, focusing on investigative journalism and in-depth reporting of Philippine social issues.
The organizations specializes in producing "research-intensive and in-depth reports in multiple formats, and the training and mentoring of journalists, students and civil society organizations, especially those whose opportunities for capacity building are scarce."[1]
It released its first story—an exposé on a controversial agreement involving disputed territory—on March 9, 2008. The story was written by Yvonne T. Chua and Ellen Tordesillas and published by GMA News Online and Malaya.[2]
In 2017, Vera Files became the first news organization in the Philippines to be a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter.[3]
In April 2018, social media company Facebook tapped Vera Files and news website Rappler to be part of its third-party fact-checking program in the Philippines.[4][5] The program aims to help Facebook flag or identify false news stories shared by people on its social media platform. Facebook Pages that share false news stories repeatedly will also be seen less on people's news feeds. The program, according to Vera File's announcement, “is in line with Facebook’s three-part framework to improve the quality and authenticity of stories in the News Feed.”[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynter_Institute
International Fact-Checking Network
Logo of the International Fact-Checking Network
In 2015, the institute launched the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), which sets a code of ethics for fact-checking organizations. The IFCN reviews fact-checkers for compliance with its code, and issues a certification to publishers who pass the audit. The certification lasts for one year, and fact-checkers must be re-examined annually to retain their certifications.[9] Google, Facebook, and other technology companies use the IFCN's certification to vet publishers for fact-checking contracts.[10][11]
The IFCN and the American Press Institute jointly publish Factually, a newsletter on fact-checking and journalism ethics.[9][12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappler
Rappler is a Philippine online news website based in Pasig, Manila. It started as a Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011[2] and later evolved into a complete website on January 1, 2012.[3] Along with web-based text news content, it was among the first news websites in the Philippines to extensively use online multimedia including video, pictures, text and audio. It also uses social media sites for news distribution.[4]
According to its own website, the name Rappler is a portmanteau of the words "rap" (to discuss) and "ripple" (to make waves).[3]
In 2018, agencies under the Philippine government initiated legal proceedings against Rappler.[5] Rappler and its staff said it was being targeted for its revelations of misappropriations by government and elected officials.
With the idea of professional journalists using social media and crowd sourcing for news distribution,[6] Rappler was started in 2011 by Filipino journalist Maria Ressa along with her entrepreneur and journalist friends.[7][8] Brainstorming for the company began some time in 2010 when Maria Ressa was writing her second book, From Bin Laden to Facebook. Other key people involved in its conceptualization and creation were former Newsbreak head and ABS-CBN News Channel managing editor Glenda Gloria, journalist and Ateneo De Manila University professor Chay Hofileña, former TV Patrol executive producer Lilibeth Frondoso, Philippine internet pioneer Nix Nolledo, internet entrepreneur Manuel I. Ayala, and former Nation Broadcasting Corporation executive Raymund Miranda.[9]
Rappler first went public as a beta version website on January 1, 2012, the same day that the Philippine Daily Inquirer published a Rappler piece that broke the story of (then) Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona being awarded a University of Santo Tomas doctoral degree without a required dissertation.[10] The site officially launched at its #MoveManila event at the Far Eastern University in Manila on January 12, 2012.[11]
Coverage of fake news campaigns in the Philippines
In 2016, Rappler began to be critical of the Duterte-led government of the Philippines, which had just taken office in 2016 and his controversial war on drugs after it noticed a trend of fake news related to him in media outlets of the state and private entities, and being spread on Facebook.[12] On 11 January 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission revoked Rappler's license to operate as a "mass media" entity, for allegedly violating the Constitution's Foreign Equity Restrictions in Mass Media by being wholly foreign-owned.[13] Rappler then sought a petition for review from the Court of Appeals on 28 January, but was rejected on 26 July 2018, finding no grave abuse of discretion on the part of the SEC. Many journalistic organizations and committees saw the act as intimidation and attempt to silence the opposition, and control freedom of the press.[14]
On 26 October 2017, Rappler became a member of the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). This led to Facebook tapping Rappler and Vera Files in April 2018 to be its Philippine partners in its worldwide fact-checking program, in part because of their participation in the IFCN.[15][16] Under the program, false news stories will appear lower on users' news feeds and lower the chances of people seeing those stories.[15][16] The program, according to a Facebook executive, "is one of the ways we hope to better identify and reduce the reach of false news that people share on our platform."[16] A spokesperson for the Philippine government backed the fact-checking program but protested Facebook's partnership with Rappler.[17][18]