Ahead of the upcoming federal election a disgraced university fact checking unit has quietly rebranded after being mocked globally for publishing multiple error-ridden and biased verdicts.
Lookout! Disgraced RMIT fact checking unit undergoes botched rebrand to protect 'democracy' ahead of federal election
Odd shades of purple and orange make up the new colours behind a rebrand of RMIT's scandal-prone fact checking unit. Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has independent fact checkers, is open to all perspectives, and doesnât interfere in elections.The IFCN has no record of RMIT Lookout on its website, and the freshly branded operation does not appear in the list of 145 “active signatories”.On background, an RMIT employee told this writer the accreditation was"imminent" and part of the IFCN process involved demonstrating fact checks had been published recently and publicly.
For an organisation which receives hundreds and millions of dollars from the taxpayer, it is shockingly terrible at paperwork. It is even worse at getting the facts right.There has been no accountability for these mistakes, or public recognition by the university that mistakes were even made. The scandal resulted in RMIT being booted out of Facebook’s systems and losing a lucrativeThe unit’s fearless leader, Russell Skelton, also departed amid the furore, with no explanation given other than a “background” statement to this journalist that “Russell Skelton left RMIT at the end of his contract”.
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