(C) Poynter Institute This story was originally published by Poynter Institute and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fact-checkers from Turkey, India and Georgia win GlobalFact 11 awards [1] ['Angela Fu', 'Loreben Tuquero', 'Angela Fu Is A Reporter For Poynter. She Can Be Reached At Afu Poynter.Org Or On Twitter', 'Loreben Tuquero Is A Reporter Covering Misinformation For Politifact. She Previously Worked As A Researcher Writer For Rappler', 'Where She Wrote Fact Checks', 'Stories On', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow', 'Class', 'Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus', 'Display Inline'] Date: 2024-06-28 15:48:04+00:00 SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – When the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, it brought forth a resurgence in questions and claims about the decades-long, Israel-Palestine conflict. Among them, did Palestinians sell their land to Israelis, thus justifying the current occupation? The answer — according to experts and records consulted by Öyküm Hüma Keskin, a fact-checker at Turkish outlet Teyit — is complicated. Some Palestinians did sell their land, but the amount of land sold is smaller than many claim. The land sales were also not directly related to the establishment of the State of Israel. For Hüma Keskin’s work, Teyit won the Highest Impact award at GlobalFact 11, the largest fact-checking conference in the world, Friday. The primary method of land acquisition by Israelis was the Absentee Property Law, Teyit found. The 1950 law enabled Israelis to seize the property and land of Palestinians who had fled the area due to conflict. Before the State of Israel was established in 1948, only 6-7% of registered land was owned by Jews. “(I)t cannot be said that the establishment of the State of Israel is directly related to the sale of Palestinian lands,” Hüma Keskin wrote, “Because when the State of Israel was established, the majority of the land was owned by Arabs.” Every year the International Fact-Checking Network hosts the GlobalFact Awards in conjunction with its annual conference, which this year is in Sarajevo. This year marked the sixth edition of the awards, which for the first time included the category Best Research. The IFCN reviewed 113 submissions to select 28 nominees, and more than 240 fact-checkers voted to select the winners. Here are the rest of the 2024 GlobalFact Awards winners: Most innovative collaboration Awarded to the Misinformation Combat Alliance, a team of 12 Indian fact-checking organizations who created a WhatsApp tip line called the Deepfakes Analysis Unit that allows people to submit content they suspect is AI-generated. The team — which includes fact-checkers from Boom, Fact Crescendo, Factly, India Today, The Logical Indian, Logically Facts, Newschecker, Newsmeter, Newsmobile, The Quint, THIP and Vishvas News — analyzes submissions from across the world and works with other journalists, academics, experts and tech platforms to publish periodic reports on their findings. The Deepfakes Analysis Unit has analyzed more than 500 audio and visual files for deepfakes and produced more than 14 reports that have served as the basis for other fact checks. They plan to make their database available to researchers and others working in the field. Most creative format Georgian fact-checking organization Myth Detector won the award for Most Creative Format for “Operation Infektion,” a game it developed to help players learn about Soviet propaganda methods. The game provides an immersive experience for players, who are prompted to infiltrate the KGB and plan an anti-U.S. information operation. It embeds information on tactics such as the “big lie,” “false flag” operations and the “card stacking technique.” Players later reach two stages when they have to create and distribute a “fake article,” referencing the infamous 1983 article that sowed a conspiracy theory of the Pentagon creating AIDS. Best research Bagging its second award, Myth Detector won the inaugural Best Research award for “Sexist Language and Gendered Disinformation,” a study that tracked down sources of sexist hate speech and gendered disinformation in Georgia. The researchers collected and analyzed data from traditional media and Facebook accounts for false and misleading information disproportionately targeting women, gender-nonconforming people and members of marginalized groups such as LGBTQIA+. They identified sexist and homophobic messages that circulated through these media channels with the goal of mobilizing public opinion on protecting values, identity, the institution of family and children. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/fact-checkers-from-turkey-india-and-georgia-win-globalfact-11-awards/ Published and (C) by Poynter Institute Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons . via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/poynter/