Who needs fact-checkers?
How fact-checking became an industry
The Media Show · BBC Radio 4
January 16, 201928m 10s
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Show Notes
Facebook has contracted a UK charity to help stop fake news. But does the growth of professional fact-checkers undermine real journalists? Also in the show, how foreign media are reporting Brexit.
Amol is joined by Will Moy, director of Full Fact, Diana Zimmermann, ZDF’s UK and Ireland correspondent, Joy Reid, TVNZ 1 News Europe correspondent, and Matthew Chance, CNN's Senior International Correspondent.
Presenter: Amol Rajan Producer: Richard Hooper