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AP to enhance fact checks with $245,000 from Knight

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is joining with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to expand its fact-checking efforts and ability to debunk misinformation. Knight is granting $245,000 to enable the AP to experiment with new forms of storytelling for social media and mobile platforms and to use data and automation to better understand how consumers make decisions about what kinds of information to trust. AP will also add additional full-time journalists dedicated to fact-checking.

 

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