The Fact Check Initiative Japan (FIJ), the first full-scale fact-checking coalition organization in Japan, was established by university researchers and media personnel.The purpose is to expand the fact check to verify the authenticity and accuracy of media reports and politicians' remarks.
According to FIJ, the founders are Professor Kentaro Inui of the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Professor Nobuyuki Okumura of the Faculty of Sociology of Musashi University, and other university researchers, Atsushi Fujimura, SmartNews Executive Officer, and Hitofumi Yangi, Representative of the Japan Press Verification Organization. A total of 10 people involved and experts.The secretariat will be Yagii.
For the purpose of promoting and disseminating fact checks, we will collect domestic check cases and create guidelines, as well as evaluation methods, demonstration experiments for effective information provision, joint development of fact checker support systems utilizing the latest technology, etc. To proceed.We also aim to incorporate FIJ in the near future.
False fake news spread on the Internet, and many fake news sites that provided information in favor of the Trump camp appeared in the 2016 US presidential election, causing controversy.With the spread of the Internet in Japan, inaccurate news has often become a problem.
However, there was no organization or media in Japan that was responsible for fact checking in earnest.For this reason, fact checking will be promoted as one of the important roles of journalism.
