An alliance of free press organizations has published a legal guide to help fact-checkers surf legal issues. The guide addresses the law in the U.S., Brazil, the Philippines and Italy with the U.S. guide providing information about libel, privacy, newsgathering. (Poynter, September 19, 2019, by Cristina Tardaguila)
The guide helps the fact-checkers deal with physical and legal threats, important since many fact-checkers are freelance or work for small or nonprofit news outlets. (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, September 12, 2019, by Basma Humadi)
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