The first assessment (February 4, 2018) about El Sabueso - Animal Político’s compliance of IFCN code of principles was as follows:
1. Organization
Criterion #1.1 – Complete compliance
Criterion #1.2 – Complete compliance
2. Nonpartisanship and fairness
Criterion #2.1 – Complete compliance
Criterion #2.2 – Complete compliance
3. Transparency of sources
Criterion #3.1 – Complete compliance
4. Transparency of funding and of organization
Criterion #4.1 – Partial compliance
Criterion #4.2 – Complete compliance
Criterion #4.3 – Complete compliance
5. Transparency of methodology
Criterion #5.1 – Partial compliance
Criterion #5.2 – Complete compliance
6. Open and honest corrections policy
Criterion #6.1 – Partial compliance
According to this assessment, the original recommendation to the IFCN board was accept with edits.
After receiving the report from IFCN board, El Sabueso - Animal Político made some edits in order to improve its fact-checking service, including the improvements described in the box above. The assessor made a second analysis (February 19, 2018) of those improvements, which resulted in the following re-assessment:
4. Transparency of funding and of organization
Criterion #4.1 – Complete compliance
5. Transparency of methodology
Criterion #5.1 – Complete compliance
6. Open and honest corrections policy
Criterion #6.1 – Complete compliance
According to this post-assessment, the recommendation to the
IFCN board upgrades to:
Accept