Thursday, March 12, 2015

Les Décodeurs : Le Monde Starts a Fact-Checking Department

Taking its cue from across the Atlantic, Le Monde had introduced a fact-checking department, Les Décodeurs, to get back to facts.

The team boasts a charter.

Just like in MSM America, as can be seen in its special 40 Urban Legends piece, the Décodeurs' rule seems to be much more to expose and fight against the ideas and policies of the right than their equivalents of the left (little if anything on, say, global warming)…
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