135 Fact-checking worldwide initiatives Jorge Vázquez-Herrero Ángel Antonio Vizoso García Xosé López García 10.6084/m9.figshare.7854938.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/135_Fact-checking_worldwide_initiatives/7854938 This is a dataset of fact-checking worldwide initiatives after checking the last activity of each site from 2 databases: <i>Duke Reporters' Lab</i> and the <i>International Fact-Checking Network </i>at <i>Poynter Institute</i>. We obtained that there are 135 platforms with activity in the last 3 months. This is the sample used for different research works from the Novos Medios research group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).<br><br> 2019-03-16 14:48:13 fact-checking fact-checkers misinformation post-truth fake news Communications and Media Policy