The Problem With Fact Checking A Stranger's Disability
On September 7, Sweet Anita, a Twitch streamer with 1.8 million followers, issued a statement:
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Alice Franklin
Editorial Assistant
Alice is a writer based in Oxford who recently graduated from the MA Creative Writing Prose at UEA. She has a penchant for learning about languages, loves grammar, and is a fan of explaining complex things in a simple way.
Latest Editorials by Alice Franklin
Double Check: Who Is Colin The Caterpillar?
On Friday 16, April 2021, I asked a dozen American citizens about the caterpillar-shaped chocolate cake familiar to most, if not all, Britons. Surprisingly — or unsurprisingly, I can’t decide — most of my interviewees didn’t know what on earth I...
Double Check: Do Amazon Workers Have to Pee in Bottles?
In recent weeks, Amazon — the trillion-dollar company that sells everything from A to Z — has apparently been trying to boost its brand reputation on Twitter. This has entailed the company using questionable accounts to promote claims about...
A Year in Terms and Conditions
On 12 May 2020, 62 days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Facebook updated its COVID-19 policy. In this update, they included a particularly tedious sentence written in corporate legalese — a soul-crushingly...
Operation Early Bird: How Logically Pioneered Live Fact Checking
On September 29, at nine p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Logically’s fact checkers sat at their respective desks, their drinks of choice at their side and ninety minutes of quiet focus stretching before them. The evening was an auspicious one: the...
Double Check: Did the BBC Ban the Pogues?
On 19 November, the BBC announced that Radio 1 would no longer be playing the uncensored version of “Fairytale of New York”, the popular Christmas song by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. Instead, whenever there is cause to broadcast the 1987 hit,...