Japan Fact-check Center

Japan Fact-check Center

Japan Fact-check Center (JFC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fact-checking and promoting media information literacy. Our mission is to maintain and improve the health of the digital public space, which is fundamental to democracy.

Fact-check in English

This is a list of articles translated into English from the Japan Fact-Check Center (JFC).

English - 日本ファクトチェックセンター (JFC)
This is a list of articles translated into English from the Japan Fact-Check Center (JFC).

JFC Fact-check Rules

This section explains the principles and methodology of how JFC verifies facts.

JFC Fact-check Rules
The Japan Fact Check Center (JFC) has established fact-checking guidelines with reference to the International Fact-checking Network(IFCN)’s code of principles and ensure the impartial verification of facts. Detailed information can be found here(Only in Japanese), but this page will outline the overview, the methodology of actual verifications,

Structure of JFC

How JFC was established, its structure, and how its independence as a fact-checking organization is ensured.

Structure of JFC
The Japan Fact Check Center (JFC) is a non-profit organization specializing in fact-checking. JFC works to maintain and improve the health of the Internet discourse space, which is the foundation of democracy, by verifying the truth of uncertain information on the Internet based on evidence, and by disseminating and promoting

JFC Funding and Budget

JFC discloses its funding and accounting to increase transparency.

JFC Funding and budget
The Japan Fact Check Center (JFC) offers fact checking free of charge. This is because it is impossible to compete with the free false information if there is a charge for the verification articles that point out the errors. For this reason, JFC relies primarily on donations and grants to

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