Corrective

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CORRECTIV
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legal form profit company
founding 2014
founder David Schraven
Seat Essen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
main emphasis investigative journalism
people David Schraven , Simon Kretschmer
Employees 36
Website correctiv.org

Correctiv (spelling CORRECTIV, also known as correctiv.org ) is a research center based in Essen and another location in Berlin . It is the first journalism project financed by a foundation in Germany . It is operated by Correctiv - Recherche for the non-profit company , which also runs the online journalism school Reporterfabrik . Via the commercial subsidiary Correctiv - Verlag und Vertrieb für die UG (limited liability) , it publishes books and carries out fact checks for Facebook .

aims

With its model, Correctiv wants to make investigative, educational journalism accessible to all people and media partners free of charge. Much research is published together with newspapers, magazines or radio and television stations. The content is primarily published on the company's own website, and citizens are sometimes involved in research. There is an extensive educational program with research workshops and online tutorials, including in the Reporterfabrik online journalism school .

history

The company was founded in June 2014. It received start-up funding of three million euros from the Brost Foundation .

In January 2017, the establishment of the online journalism school Reporterfabrik was announced, which started in December 2018.

In 2017 Facebook announced a cooperation with Correctiv. Certain posts that are reported by users as false reports or fake news and that spread widely would be checked by Correctiv. If their fact checkers come to the conclusion that there is such a post, the Facebook post will not be deleted, but will be given a warning that the story is being questioned by an independent party. Correctiv adds a link to its own text, which contrasts facts with the falsifying contribution. Furthermore, the visibility of these posts is reduced by technical parameters in the Facebook database. After an initial free test phase, the work is now paid for by Facebook. Statements by politicians are excluded from fact checks. The fact checks are carried out by the commercial subsidiary Correctiv - Verlag und Vertrieb for the company UG (limited liability) .

For the Turkish-German bilingual journalistic platform "Özgürüz" there is a collaboration with the Turkish journalist Can Dündar . The online magazine was founded in 2017 together with Correctiv. The website is blocked in Turkey .

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On October 18, 2018, Correctiv, in cooperation with other media from 11 countries, published research results on European Cum-Ex tax fraud at cumex-files.com.

The CORRECTIV.Lokal project began in October 2018. Together with local media, the editors research the ownership structure of apartments in Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Heidenheim and Minden in order to make the real estate market more transparent.

On May 6, 2019, Correctiv published research results on European tax fraud cases totaling 50 billion euros annually in cooperation with journalists from 30 countries under the name Grand Theft Europe.

Management and organization

David Schraven was editor-in-chief from June 2014 to May 2015, Markus Grill from June 2015 to August 2017 and Oliver Schröm from January 2018 to October 2019. Since November 1, 2019, Olaya Argüeso and Justus von Daniels have been the editor-in-chief.

David Schraven and Christian Humborg were managing directors of Correctiv until November 2016. Then David Schraven was sole managing director for a year and a half and Simon Kretschmer has been the second managing director since May 2018.

The economic work is monitored by the Supervisory Board , which is formed by Lukas Beckmann (since 2017), Dagmar Hovestädt (since 2017) and Andrew Murphy (since 2015). Hedda von Wedel and Gerhard Winter were on the Supervisory Board until 2017 . The quality of the journalistic work is monitored by an ethics council , whose founding chairman was Bodo Hombach until he stepped down in 2016 due to a conflict of interests.

Shareholder and Financing

David Schraven was initially the sole shareholder of Correctiv - Recherche for the non-profit company . In October 2017, he handed over the majority of the shares to other shareholders, the curators . Members of the board of trustees are Lukas Beckmann (chairman of the supervisory board), Christian Humborg (former managing director), Simon Kretschmer (managing director), Stefan Kruecken and David Schraven (managing director).

Correctiv is supported as a non-profit organization through foundations, membership fees and private donations . It is therefore independent of advertising and sales revenues. In addition to the annual reports , all donations, grants and grants over 1,000 euros are shown by name on the website. The main donor is the Brost Foundation, which also took on the initial funding. Without their support, Correctiv says, the foundation would not have been viable in the first four years. The following donors donated at least 100,000 euros between 2014 and 2019:

Donor total
Brost Foundation 3,746,090
Schöpflin Foundation 835,000
Omidyar Network 640,051.24
Adessium Foundation 382,000
Google Digital News Initiative 370,000
Open Society Foundations 303,393.3
Rudolf Augstein Foundation 254,111.13
Deutsche Telekom 245,000
Federal Agency for Civic Education 209.294
Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture 178,000
Mercator Foundation 158,691.59
State Institute for Media North Rhine-Westphalia 120,050
Facebook 105,000
Cassiopeia Foundation 100,000

Research and projects

  • "Putin System"
  • "TTIP"
  • "Flight MH17"
  • "The Invisible"
  • "White Wolves"
  • "Donation courts"
  • "Mafia in Africa"
  • "Mafia"
  • "Deadly Germs"
  • "Football doping"
  • "Generation E"
  • "Couchsurfing"
  • "Business Cheats"
  • "The Olive Oil Cartel"
  • " CumEx files "
  • "Grand Theft Europe"
  • "Who owns Hamburg?"
  • "The Heartland Lobby"

Awards

Controversy

Conflicts of Interest

Bodo Hombach had a double function as head of ethics at Correctiv and on the board of the Brost Foundation, which he himself ended in 2016 because of the conflict of interest by giving up the function on the ethics council. According to Kressnews , the close connection between David Schraven and Bodo Hombach caused conflicts of interest, since the chairman of the board of the Brost Foundation, Wolfgang Heit, as a doctor himself, was affected by Correctiv's research on “Euros for Doctors”, which was the case A reduction in Correctiv's financial support from the Brost Foundation and Hombach's resignation. The claims made by Kressnews have been rejected as inaccurate.

Hospital germs

A report published by Correctiv in November 2014 on the topic of multi-resistant hospital germs was criticized in the taz as “a large-scale disgrace”, the central statement had not been substantiated; other major newspapers did the reporting and saw no reason to doubt the results. Correctiv responded to the taz's criticism and corrected its report on one point. In retrospect, David Schraven was annoyed "that such an insignificant matter gets weight, as if the whole research were wrong".

Malaysia Airlines flight Jan.

In connection with research into the crash of the Boeing 777, Malaysia Airlines flight 17 , over the embattled East Ukraine in the summer of 2014 , Correctiv filed a lawsuit against the Federal Foreign Office on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act in April 2015 in order to obtain information about the state of knowledge of the Foreign Office to obtain. An announcement of a lawsuit in connection with the question addressed to Federal Foreign Minister Steinmeier as to why there was no prior warning despite the known dangers for passenger aircraft was distributed by Correctiv in social media and also projected onto the external facade of the Foreign Office. This led critics to question whether Correctiv only engages in journalism or not also activism and self-staging. Volker Lilienthal assessed that the office was "more concerned with the self-staging of corrective as a watchdog" and "less with the journalistic message".

Alleged sex scandal

In spring 2017 Correctiv published the article “Top woman of the AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia worked as a prostitute”, which assumed that an AfD candidate for the imminent state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2017 was a hobby prostitution on the Internet. The authors David Schraven and Georg Kontekakis justified the publication by stating that such an activity was contrary to the image of women propagated by the party and made the politician “open to blackmail”. The article was heavily criticized on social media, and numerous journalists also commented negatively. The Düsseldorf District Court prohibited Correctiv from further distributing the article. Michael Hanfeld wrote in the FAZ : "The journalist office 'Correctiv', hired by Facebook as an anti-fake news brigade, recently found it necessary to expose an AfD politician [...] The reason for this supposed scoop , which was nothing but denunciation , "Corrective" was quite difficult. It would be very simple: Anyone who thinks to fight against 'hate' and ' fake news ' should not be blind to any eye and not just in one direction, the standards that they apply to others, also against themselves and everyone. do research'."

Lament from Tichy's insight

In September 2019, the online magazine Tichys Insight mentioned in an article an open letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres, whose signatories deny the climate emergency. The reference to the article 500 scientists explain: There is no climate emergency was published on Facebook and provided by Correctiv with a “partly wrong” notice. Tichy's insight did not see a fact check in his lawsuit in Correctiv's procedure, but an evaluation. The magazine describes the special status of Correctiv on Facebook as unfair competition . Corrective operate an interference in the freedom of expression and information disguised as a fact check.

In May 2020, the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court decided that Correctiv's presentation of a fact check “for the average user” was misleading and therefore not permissible. Correctiv's criticisms related to the open letter quoted by Tichy's insight. The court stressed that the appeal process failed to rule on the legality of fact-checking on Facebook in general. In the first instance, the Mannheim Regional Court ruled in favor of Correctiv.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Imprint reporterfabrik.org
  3. ↑ Imprint shop.correctiv.org
  4. ↑ a b Fact check with a hook: The Facebook dilemma of Correctiv uebermedien.de, December 12, 2019
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  6. ↑ Hope through research zeit.de, July 1, 2014
  7. ↑ “Reporterfabrik”: Cordt Schnibben leaves the mirror and founds meedia.de journalism school with David Schraven , January 15, 2017
  8. ↑ With Wolf Schneider, Giovanni di Lorenzo, Jan Böhmermann: Schnibbens and Schravens Reporterfabrik starts beta phase meedia.de, December 3, 2018
  9. ^ Fabian Reinbold: German research bureau should correct false reports on Facebook. In: Spiegel Online from January 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ About the cooperation between CORRECTIV.Faktencheck and Facebook. In: correctiv.org. December 17, 2018, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ "We are free" - Correctiv brings German-Turkish medium "Özgürüz" online. heise online, January 24, 2017, accessed on January 24, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Özgürüz start page. ozguruz.org, January 24, 2017, accessed January 24, 2017 .
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  14. ↑ Vote for Freedom. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 24, 2017, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ tagesschau.de: "Cum-Ex-Files" research: attack on Europe's taxpayers. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  16. ^ Corrective, local. In: correctiv.org. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
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  18. ↑ Spiegel man Markus Grill becomes the new editor-in-chief of Correctiv meedia.de, March 13, 2015
  19. ↑ Another prominent departure from Correctiv: After co-founder Daniel Drepper, editor-in-chief Markus Grill is also leaving the research office meedia.de on August 30, 2017
  20. ↑ After one and a half years at NDR: “Panorama” reporter Oliver Schröm becomes the new editor-in-chief of Correctiv meedia.de, November 22, 2017
  21. ↑ New dual leadership at Correctiv: Olaya Argüeso and Justus von Daniels follow Oliver Schröm meedia.de, September 17, 2019
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  33. ↑ Seven things you can do to prevent antibiotic resistance. In: correctiv.org. July 7, 2017, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Deadly Superbugs. In: correctiv.org. November 27, 2014. Retrieved May 9, 2019 (American English).
  35. ↑ Possibly over 200 doping cases in football in 2016. In: correctiv.org. August 23, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  36. ↑ generatione.correctiv.org | The great hike from south to north. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  37. ↑ CORRECT! V | COUCHSURFING. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
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  45. ↑ Andrew Müller: Business model climate denial . In: taz , February 4, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
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