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Inside the Bloodhound: Why Mexicos fact-checking experiment should scare politicians everywhere
James Fredrick
on Sep 3, 2015 @ 3:45 PM
MEXICO CITY Mexico is finally at peace, if you ask the president.
Today, it is a fact that violence is decreasing in Mexico, President Enrique Peña Nieto said Wednesday, in a section of his state of the nation address titled Mexico in Peace.
Then he claimed that last years homicide numbers had dropped 24 percent since 2012.
Cue the fact-checkers.
Gathered around a table watching the live feed in another part of the capital, a group of skeptics are shaking their heads, and get to work crunching numbers. Its their job to sniff out true and false from the presidents speech.
Meet El Sabueso Spanish for The Bloodhound. Organized by influential news website Animal Politico and public policy center Mexico Evalua, theyve brought together 60 journalists, researchers, students, statisticians and Mexicans from various backgrounds for the massive task of fact-checking this two-hour speech.
Animal Politico launched El Sabueso as an online column at the beginning of 2015 in the spirit of fact-checkers like Politifact. Every couple weeks, it takes a statement from a Mexican politician and ranks it on a scale from True to Deceptive all the way down to Ridiculous.
More:
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6642189/2015/09/03/mexico-fact-check-president
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