سياسة الشفافية
تعمل منصة فتبينوا تحت 10 قواعد تحدد سياسة شفافيّة المنصة في العمل وتلتزم بها:
- تلتزم فتبينوا بإظهار جميع الأدلة عند نفي الادّعاءات أو اثباتها ولا يحق لها إخفاء هذه الأدلة.
- لا تعتبر آراء المحررين دليلاً يمكن الاعتماد عليه ولا تبنى التحقيقات على وجهات نظر العاملين في المنصة
- ” هذا المقال يعبّر عن رأي الكاتب ولا يعبّر عن اتجاه المنصة بالضرورة ” : هذه العبارة لا تنطبق على التحقيقات التي تنتجها منصة فتبينوا ولا بأي شكل من الأشكال وعليه تتحمل منصة فتبينوا المسؤولية الكاملة لوجود أي خطأ في أي تحقيق صحفي.
- المواد التي ترسل لمنصة فتبينوا يحق لمرسلها أن يطلب اظهار اسمه او لا ، ويحق للمنصة الموافقة أو الرفض بما لا يخالف قواعد العمل. فعلى سبيل المثال: ان كان اسم مرسل الدليل جزء لا يتجزّأ من الدليل تلتزم منصة فتبينوا بإظهار اسم صاحب الدليل بعد أخذ موافقته.
- فيما يتعلق بالجانب السياسي: ليس من التصنيفات التي تعمل فيها منصة فتبينوا وذلك حتى آخر تحديث لقواعد العمل ” 1 يوليو 2020 ” الآراء السياسية والبرامج الانتخابية والوعود النيابية وغيرها أو فيما يتعلق بتصريحات السياسيين التي تحمل الكثير من الآراء الشخصية.
- تلتزم منصة فتبينوا بأن يكون جميع العاملين في المنصة سواء ادرايين أو صحفيين لا ينتمون لأي حزب سياسي ولم يترشحوا لمنصب سياسي تلتزم منصة فتبينوا بأن تبقى منصة مستقلة بدون توجه سياسي معين في مقالاتها وتحقيقاتها.
- إن قام ناشر ادّعاء ما ، بحذف الادّعاء ، تلتزم منصة فتبينوا ودّياً – ولها الحق الكامل في القرار – بحذف اسم ناشر الادّعاء من على موقع فتبينوا مع الإبقاء على نص الادّعاء كما هو. للتأكيد على ان الهدف هو الأفكار وليس الأشخاص وبهدف تشجيع مستخدمي الانترنت على نبذ الأخبار الكاذبة.
- يمكن لأعضاء المنصة المشاركة من حين لآخر في وسائل الإعلام ولكن يطلب منهم تجنب التحيز تجاه أو ضد أي جانب في المحادثات ، تلتزم منصة فتبينوا بالامتناع عن استخدام منصة فتبينوا للدعوة أو الترويج للسياسيين أو الأحزاب السياسية.
- تلتزم منصة فتبينوا بتعديل أي خطأ تقوم به أو تنشره على موقعها أو على حساباتها الرسمية إن وجدت الدليل الذي يثبت وقوعها في خطأ ما.
- تلتزم منصة فتبينوا أن تقدم خدمات التحقق من الأخبار والمعلومات للجمهور العربي بكل أصنافه وأطيافه وجنسياتهم.
Fatabyyano commits to following 10 rules related to its transparency policy
- Fatabyyano commits to always show all evidence found by the team when refuting or proving a claim in our review articles
- opinions of the review article editors can’t be used as an only source for proving or refuting a certain claim
- Fatabyyano take full responsibility for every review article published on its official website
- the sender of certain evidence to Fatabyyano can ask to show or hide his name and Fatabyyano can accept or refuse to use this evidence under these conditions without violating our methodology for example if the identity of the sender is considered part from the evidence Fatabyyano can’t accept the request of hiding the name till the last update for our methodology in January 2020, Fatabyyano doesn’t fact-check claims related to political opinions, official elections and others related to politicians announcement which is considered in most of it an opinion
- Fatabyyano commits that all of its editorial staff doesn’t belong to any political party and didn’t run for a political role in their countries as a part of Fatabyyano’s commitment to always stand as an independent organization without any political bias
- if a publisher of a certain claim removed it from his account, page or channel, Fatabyyano can remove his name from the review article or put a notice of his update when notified as our goal is to fight false information and stop its spread not certain individuals or entities
- Team members can participate occasionally in media but they are requested to avoid taking sides or biasing towards or against any side in conversations
منصة فتبينوا هي منصة مستقلّة مسجّلة قانونيًّا في الأردن -عمان- منذ 22 فبراير 2016 بمقتضى أحكام قانون الأسماء التجارية رقم 9 لسنة 2006 في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية- مديرية السجل المركزي
Fatabyyano is an Independent legally-registered institution set up for the purpose of fact-checking. registered in 22 / Feb / 2016.
Also according to the Transparency aspect in Wikipedia, Fatabyyano is defined as a Platform that exclusively specialized for Fact-checking and Debunking Fake-news, Rumors, and Pseudoscience.
On 10 Feb 2020, and as a Part of Fatabyyano Expansion Plan we become a Limited Liability Company, Pursuant to the documents kept with the Companies Control Department at the Ministry of Industry & Trade at The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Fatabyyano Company 257801/22222 is incorporated as a Limited Liability Company under N 56602 with Entity National Number 200176261, And Moath Nabeel Hashem Althaher shall be authorized to sign on behalf of the Company in All Financial, administrative, Judicial, Legal and in other matters
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Fatabyyano is not controlled by any political parties either in Jordan or Outside Jordan. as well as Fatabyyano have no commercial, financial or institutional relationship to any politicians or Political Actors or Political parties either inside Jordan or outside Jordan. Fatabyyano had Transparent Funding Policy
Fatabyyano is totally independent Company and Moath Nabeel Hashem Althaher shall be authorized to sign on behalf of the Company in All Financial, administrative, Judicial, Legal and in other matters
Independency
To maintain a high level of clarity and objectivity for Fatabayyano, Members of our editorial staff are not allowed to donate to political campaigns or participate in political activities of any party
Team members can participate occasionally in media but they are requested to avoid taking sides or biasing towards or against any side in conversations
Fatabayyano has a clear code for transparency that is agreed upon by all members that they have to declare their political connections, if exist and refrain from using Fatabayyano platform to advocate or promote for individual politicians or political parties.
COMMITMENT TO STANDARDS AND TRANSPARENCY OF SOURCES
We follow our methodology and Fact-checking transparency policy in responding to every claim:
We divide the Fact-checking Explanatory Article into 2 main parts
The FIRST is the claim part which contains the exact claim transcript without our editing or a summary of the claims if the claim investigated is a long video:
Example of summary
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%81%d9%84%d9%88%d9%86%d8%b2%d8%a7-%d8%ba%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%ac%d8%af%d9%8d-%d9%88%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%ad-%d9%83%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%a7/
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%81%d8%ad%d8%b5-pcr-%d9%8a%d9%8f%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%ae%d8%af%d9%85-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%aa%d8%b4%d8%ae%d9%8a%d8%b5-%d9%83%d9%88%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%af-19-%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%b5%d9%84-%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a8/
– Then take a screenshot of the claim from the most popular or the most engaging post that shared the claim, then we cite this page name and description when the claim was published and How much engagement it got until the moment of writing the claim and we write this date. then we describe the engagement or how much spread mainly by saying how many shares it got and how many views if it was a video this single claim post got.
Then, we search social media platforms for similar claim posts or by using tools like CrowdTangle or by using Google or Yandex Search Engines and cite those in our Fact-checking article for better clarify how widely spread this claim, ( to cover most of claim links on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube..etc ) and also it helps in rating the claims for Facebook recently
example showing this:
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%87%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d9%85%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%af-%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%ab%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%8a-%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a7/
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%88-%d8%b3%d9%82%d9%88%d8%b7-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%b9%d9%85-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%86/
Currently, In most of our Fact-checking articles, we using different archiving websites like Perma.cc or https://archive.fo/ to archive the main source of the claim, as may the claim publisher will remove the claim whatever it was a ( post, video, photo..etc ) we keep a copy of it to keep a copy of the video or the post to ensure that anyone read our review article can review the original content of the main claim, in addition to that we also archive the main evidence in most of our Fact-checking articles, especially if we suspect it may be deleted at any time.
example showing this here:
https://fatabyyano.net/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%b5%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%83%d8%a9-%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%b4-%d9%88%d8%b5%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a-%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%81%d8%a9/
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%88%d8%b6%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%b7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%aa-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%b8-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-dna/
the Second part is the rating part where we describe the evidence we found and how we reached the rating of this claim
we follow our methodology and transparency policy to ensure that anyone can find the sources we used and repeat our process to ensure its validity
we use Google search tools as our main tool for fact-checking. we use google reverse image search to find the source of images mainly as well as videos we might encounter
example:
https://fatabyyano.net/%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%a7-%d8%a3%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a7-%d9%8a%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%af%d9%85-%d9%85%d8%b8%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%8a/
we use Google search to find sources related to the post we are investigating by trying different keywords that we think will lead us to more information about the post we investigate. we tend to use every possible clue in the post we investigate and use it in our search to make sure we reach the sources that are related to the post. we also use what we find from our search to further improve the keywords when looking for more sources and information.
example:
https://fatabyyano.net/%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b4%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%aa-%d9%83%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%a3%d8%b3%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa/
if the post is attributed to a person or institute, we make sure to try and contact the person or the institute DIRECTLY to fact check they say that or not and whether they have any comment about the post we investigate and make sure to publish what they say in our post and on our website article about the post, i.e: Contact the
Example of Fatabyyano Team Contact the owner of an Iraqi Social initiative
https://fatabyyano.net/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82-%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3/
Example of Fatabyyano Team Contact a Tunisian Doctor, As it was claimed that he said that the COVID19 Pandemic would end in Tunisia in February 2021, and after contacting him, we found that the claim was False and that he did not say that.
https://fatabyyano.net/%d8%b0%d8%a7%d9%83%d8%b1_%d9%84%d9%87%d9%8a%d8%b0%d8%a8_%d9%83%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%a7_%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%86%d8%b3_%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%ad/
An Example of Fatabyyano Team Contacting a restaurant owner (DITS) to get an official statement after a viral altered video showing people falling and dying in his restaurant
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%88-%d8%b3%d9%82%d9%88%d8%b7-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%b9%d9%85-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%86/
An Example of Fatabyyano Team reaching out to a participant in X-factor from Ukraine to confirm his nationality and get an explanation of what happened to him during the auditions
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%87%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b7%d8%b9-%d9%8a%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af-%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%ac-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%83%d8%b1%d8%a7/
An Example of Fatabyyano Team Contacting an Egyptian young man to verify his health after misleading news spread about his death in his wedding.
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%87%d8%b0%d9%87-%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d9%84%d9%85-%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%aa-%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a7-%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8b%d8%a7/
An Example of Fatabyyano Team Reaching out to a photographer to get details of a photo he took in 2016
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%84%d9%85-%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a9-%d8%b3%d9%86%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%b7-%d9%87%d8%b0%d9%87-%d8%a7/
An Example of Fatabyyano Team reaching out to a German photographer to inquire about a photo he took in front of BMW museum
https://fatabyyano.net/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9/General speaking: we build our response upon multiple sources to ensure the credibility and the accuracy of our response and we rarely respond to a post with only one source, This is clear in the posts mentioned above and all of our Articles on our website
In other Claims, We use many tools that are available to us in debunking viral videos for examples:
, in this article we used satellite imagery to detect fire in a specific time in KSA to confirm the evidence.
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%87%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b7%d8%b9-%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%82-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%af-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%af%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7/
using Error Level Analysis “ELA” scan to detect if the image has been manipulated
https://fatabyyano.net/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B7-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D9%85%D9%81%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%85-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83/
Using google maps (street view) to confirm a location and compare it to the claim.
https://fatabyyano.net/%D9%87%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B9-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B4%D8%BA%D8%A8-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%AA/
Using google earth (historical imagery) to confirm a location and compare a recent photo with an old one
https://fatabyyano.net/%d9%87%d8%b0%d9%87-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af-%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b4%d8%ba%d8%a8-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85/
Using (inspect element) in google chrome to read the web page data for evidence
https://fatabyyano.net/%D9%87%D8%B0%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85-1458%D9%85-%D8%A8/
Using an image translation site to detect the language and translate to English, + Using the archive to scrap old/deleted data from websites
https://fatabyyano.net/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88-%D9%8A%D9%8C%D8%B8%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7/