Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 2: Industry Perspective
Dr. Monika Bickert:
Not exactly. We do not send to our fact checkers advertisements containing direct speech from politicians. Other political advertisements may be sent to our fact checkers. I should point out the fact checking framework we have is relatively new. We only developed a process for sending advertisements to fact checkers in August 2019. Prior to August 2019, this was not something that would have been a process. We have never sent direct speech from politicians in advertisements to fact checkers. We thought it was important to make this clear, so recently we publicly reiterated it.
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