The MediaWise project, consisting of the Teen Fact-Checking Network and the MediaWise Voter Project, exists under the Poynter Institute, a 501c(3). The Poynter Institute is home to several other fact-checking organizations, including the International Fact-Checking Network and PolitiFact. https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

This is clear, but note that when you click on the Media Wise link through the main Poynter website it takes you to an OOPS! page. I've included a screen shot. 

Because the MediaWise project is designed to reach a diverse audience ranging in age from 13-24, we publish our fact checks on multiple platforms, depending on which audience the fact check is suitable for and geared toward. Therefore, our fact checks do not live in a singular archive and can be found across our social media channels and the MediaWise website.

TCFN Archives: https://www.poynter.org/teen-fact-checking-network-archives/

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DPyDJLFycNPgPcH0jaeHw

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediawise/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mediawise

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MediaWise/

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mediawise?language=en&sec_uid=MS4wLjABAAAAxETHzLsyfeomasIzgClSnX6qUCD4gKa6gThdB83jFJg3L_pgMqfiZbH9rJKIQaTM&u_code=d6dagb0bf4f4d4&utm_campaign=client_share&app=musically&utm_medium=ios&user_id=6696790925320881157&tt_from=copy&utm_source=copy&source=h5_m

I love the multi-platform approach. IFCN should offer a way to duplicate this for its other signatories. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZrXJRqPDk&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_X_n-XDQBI&feature=youtu.be

https://www.poynter.org/tfcn/2019/did-nasa-give-spiders-drugs-to-see-how-they-would-affect-web-spinning/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KXofu17b4c&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWEzotVLejM&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcUrU4xK1O4&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBmMbiGauY&t=75s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPS--s9bcI

https://www.poynter.org/tfcn/2019/bees-voted-most-important-species/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_bX8Xd7lAM

More archived here: https://www.poynter.org/teen-fact-checking-network-archives/

Editorial standards: https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

Compliant. 

The MediaWise project’s mission to teach media literacy skills seeks to present facts unaffected by agenda or biases. We recognize that unconscious bias can be powerful but with the stakes so high and the country so divided on political issues, the MediaWise team sets its own opinions aside as they work to uphold the principles of fairness and independence, steadfast in its dedication to remaining as impartial as possible and avoiding political conflicts of interest.

As such, the MediaWise project team is not permitted to:

Campaign, rally, march or fundraise for a political party or candidate;

Donate to a candidate or campaign, political action group or political party;

Express political views and commentary on social media, either in support of or opposing any candidate, political party, position or issue.

MediaWise team can (and should!) participate in the political process as voters as part of our responsibilities as United States citizens.

Any potential conflicts of interest should immediately be brought to the attention of MediaWise Editor and Program Manager Katy Byron.

Editorial standards and ethics policies: https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

Compliant. 

The MediaWise project is founded on the mission of teaching media literacy and fact-checking skills to teenagers and young adults so they are able to fact check for themselves. In accordance with that mission, our unique storytelling format documents every step of each fact check, including showing all links and documents we use, and screen recording Google searches, walking the audience through how we come to our rating conclusions. We also explain why we may choose to use one source over another, paying attention to highlight how to identify credible sources. It is designed so the audience can not only replicate that particular fact check themselves but also apply the techniques used to fact check other claims they see.

Our reporting process includes the following:

A thorough lateral reading and keyword search of the topic in Google

Searching online databases;

Reviewing publications, academic studies and other original data and documentation.

In cases where a MediaWise fact check must cite reports from news media that rely on unnamed or unattributed sources (usually due to the extreme newsworthiness of the report), we note that we cannot independently verify their reporting.

More information in the TCFN handbook attached and our editorial standards and ethics policies: https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

Compliant. 

The MediaWise project is led by The Poynter Institute in partnership with the Stanford University History Education Group (SHEG), the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and the Local Media Association (LMA) and funded by Google.org as part of the Google News Initiative (2018-2020). The MediaWise Voter Project is funded as part of the Facebook Journalism Project (2020).

https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

Please note that the MediaWise Voter Project launched on January 23, 2020, and we are in the process of redesigning and updating our website information to include Facebook's information at the bottom as well as the announcement at the top.

Compliant. 

https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

Compliant. 

https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

Compliant. I sent an email Feb. 10 @ 2:49 p.m. to the email address listed in as a contact for the public. I received a very timely response. 

Our editorial standards includes our reporting policies and our rating criteria for each fact-check: https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

I have a great deal of respect for this project, but if what it's going to be successful, it has to have a very clearly detailed methodology for how fact checks will be conducted and then verified as legit or debunked. I don't see that methodology explained or articulated on the website https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ that was included in the application. I do see ways to engage with audiences and generate interest in the project on the site provided, but that's much different than creating a methodology that can be both used and replicated to actually fact check claims. If the end goal is media literacy, then that's wonderful and necessary. But, then how is this army of fact checkers meant to do its work?

If Stanford's Civic Online Reasoning curriculum is the methodology, I still think it should be clear on Media Wise's website, as opposed to have to click through to get to the COR site. Further: Are people in the Media Wise fact check universe going to be trained in that methodology? How will the staff know if its YouTube and TikTok users are abiding by the methodology? Media Wise should be transparent about this on the site.

If the point is for the staff listed on the website to do the fact checks and *just* for a younger generation to be more involved and media literate, then I still think a methodology must be articulated online and not in multiple links. I see there is a doc that is linked from the website titled, MEDIAWISE EDITORIAL STANDARDS and ETHICS POLICIES, that outlines its policies including methodology under !. Factually Accurate, but it needs more detail, and it needs to be on the site itself. 

Main tips: https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

We do fact-checking geared primarily toward a 13-24-year-old audience, so most of our communication occurs via social media, direct messages and our hashtag #Isthislegit.

Compliant. 

Our editorial standards includes our corrections policy: https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/

No one is perfect and mistakes will happen. MediaWise issues corrections with the appropriate transparency as quickly as possible if an error has occurred. Depending on the platform on which the fact check was originally published, corrections may be handled differently to address those platform differences:

Instagram Story: We will post a correction on the Instagram story, add it to the corresponding highlight and include text with the correction information in the related feed post (if there is one).

Instagram feed post: We will add text to the feed post caption with details of the correction.

IGTV: We will add text to the feed post caption with details of the correction.

Twitter: We will add a tweet to the thread of the original tweet. If the error was particularly egregious, we’ll also publish a new tweet linking to the tweet with the error.

Facebook: We will post a correction on our page and link to the story with the error, or if possible, edit the original post and note that the post has been updated.

YouTube: We will add a correction to the video description box and text in the video title at the end.

If the correction is debilitating to the story, we will consider removing it and issuing a correction in the relevant format in an attempt to reach the same audience who saw the initial story. These instances will be handled on a case-by-case basis and must be approved by the MediaWise Project Editor and Project Manager Katy Byron.

Compliant. I appreciate that it address its multiple platforms. 

The MediaWise project has only needed to issue one correction not only in the past year but in the life of the MediaWise project, a testament to our rigorous publishing standards. The correction involved a story produced by one of our teen fact-checkers who did not accurately describe a photo of a baby in an x-ray machine tube. The fact-check was published on our Instagram Story (which only lasts for 24 hours). After an audience member alerted MediaWise to the error, it was re-checked. At that point, the story was updated and MediaWise program manager Katy Byron appeared on the Instagram story with the correction explaining the error and the correction.

We cannot provide a link to this example because Instagram Stories disappear after 24 hours.

Only one correction has been issued.