Methodology for Fact Checking

Methodology for fact checking

Selecting a claim to expose

Nixs News Tamil continuously monitors social media, newspaper printing and satellite media for misleading news or false news. Our sources for topics include:

Social media videos, post and tweets of politicians and officials or other notable profiles

Researching the claim

Once a suspicious/manipulative claim has been selected for a fact check, Nixs News Tamil engages in manual or systematic research to verify it. To expose any fake claim, Nixs News Tamil may use one or more of the below methodologies:

Using search engine like (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex…) with search filters (date, time etc.) to arrive at the origin of posts and messages circulating on the internet and Google Fact checking tools "https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer"

Establishing contact with the local authorities or police in case of viral rumours

Reviewing original video or transcript to verify

Referring to primary data or official data source/s

Contacting the person to whom a seemingly fake claim is attributed.

Validating the claim

Using a variety of tools and methods described above, Nixs News Tamil evaluates the veracity of a claim and arrives at a conclusion. Where relevant, more than one tool is used to conclusively expose the fake claim.

Policy on Political Involvement

Nixs News Tamil is a non-partisan fact-checking organization, and as a result, employees associated with us are strictly refrained to participate in any political or non-political activity that effects the company’s policy. 

Our Team

Nixs News Tamil organizational structure : The team is categorized into two - 1. Management Team, 2. Editorial Team. The proprietor, Mr. Diwakaran Sudalaimani is the one who owns the Organization and is funding the Company. The editorial team is lead by Mr. Bala Murugan.

Updating the articles

We collect all claim and source and came to conclusion and write in article with comments [such as, True, Fake, Mix, Sarcasm, Misleading]