Misinformation and disinformation campaigns are not limited to national politics.

Increasingly, the journalism industry is seeing coordinated campaigns designed to trick local newsrooms into reporting false or misleading stories.

The News4JAX Trust Index is designed to:

• Identify manipulated or out-of-context user-generated content
• Detect fake stories generated for revenue or political motives
• Expose political ads served algorithmically with little oversight
• Support transparency in the newsroom
• Reinforce journalistic ethics
• Counteract misinformation with incisive reporting and social posts
• Encourage viewers and users to share questionable content for review by station journalists

Here are the previous Trust Index stories that have aired on News4JAX.

See a questionable claim on social media or need something verified? Share it with the Trust Index fact-checking team.