Tricks in Congress
The fact-checking platform "Tricks in Congress" (port. Truco no Congresso) was created by the independent journalism groups Agência Pública and Congresso em Foco with the objective of offering clear information and data checks on public statements of political representatives in Brazil. The researchers pick the most controversial phrases and statements of various congressmen and contacted them to find the sources of their statements, while also cross-referencing them with public and alternative sources and databases. Then, adopting the format of Truco (a card game), they assigne a "card" to the statement to assessed their degree of plausibility: the different cards can indicate false information, exaggerated information, information correct but out of context , bills or amendments that cut back rights, contradictory statements with previous positions of the same congressman, correct and relevant information, or the "Truco" card, which entails a public challenge to a controversial information or statement. In these cases, the journalists of the project proceed to contact directly with the congressmen or their teams to give them the opportunity to complete their statements and add data and sources.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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