Annie lab
Annie lab
Annie Lab is a fact-checking project at the University of Hong Kong. It is a Verified Signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network and a member of the WHO-led Vaccine Safety Net.
Website: https://annielab.org/
Country: China
Last evaluation: 2023
Website audience(s):
General public, healthcare professionals, media
Description of the website
The website of Annie Lab is a member of the WHO-led project Vaccine Safety Net (VSN).
Annie Lab is a fact-checking project at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong in collaboration with ANNIE (Asian Network of News & Information Educators), a not-for-profit educational organization in Hong Kong.
Among other things, we investigate widely shared misleading claims and inaccurate news reports about medical science, especially vaccine safety. We aim to provide evidence-based information to media professionals, healthcare communities, and the general public.
Annie Lab is a verified signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and a member of the WHO-led project Vaccine Safety Net (VSN).
Website’s sponsorship policy
Annie Lab is an educational project at the University of Hong Kong, a publicly funded tertiary institution. We do not have any sponsorship or carry advertisements. We disclose all of our outside donations and grants we receive on our website: https://annielab.org/about/#finance
Website’s content or editorial policy
We are committed to political non-partisanship, fairness, accuracy, transparency, and professional rigor as an IFCN signatory.
We maintain our editorial independence in the newsroom. No outside partner, donor, or university management has any influence on the content of our articles.
Every article we produce undergoes rigorous scrutiny from the faculty members at the university before its publication.
Our editorial guideline is posted on our website: https://annielab.org/our-labels-standards/
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