Fact Check This: A community for fact-checking news articles and online content

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Fact Check This: A community for fact-checking news articles and online content

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Fact Check This: Taking requests to fact check online content - Lemmy.World

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## Welcome to FactCheckThis! ### Rules: - General rules: https://mastodon.world/about [https://mastodon.world/about] - Post a request to fact check a piece of content (provide link); OR - Post a comment to fact check a claim. Cite your sources; note that your sources need to be credible, reliable, and check-able by everyone so post a link; OR - Post or comment on a a meta thread to discuss the community, start it as META: followed by your title. ### Other instances - FCT on kbin [https://kbin.social/m/fact_check_this@lemmy.world] ### Other communities you may like - DebunkThis @lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/c/debunkthis] - Skeptic @lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/c/skeptic]

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it’s important to have a foundation to work on.

1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world’s rules, which can be found here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won’t

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn’t get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn’t actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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