<h1 id="factwire傳真社"><a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading" href="#factwire傳真社"><svg aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><use xlink:href="#svg-link"></use></svg></a>Factwire|傳真社</h1>
<p><a href="https://www.factwire.org">https://www.factwire.org</a>
status: Closed</p>
<p>傳真社（英語：FactWire）是一間位於香港的調查性新聞通訊社，為非牟利的新聞機構，於2015年8月18日成立，2016年3月1日正式運作。傳真社以專注調查報道作為主要傳播模式，調查報道獲各多間香港主流新聞媒體採用。通訊社由三千三百名香港市民集資創辦。(URL: <a href="https://www.factwire.org">https://www.factwire.org</a>)</p>
<p>FactWire is an investigative news agency headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong. 3,300 Hong Kong residents funded and founded FactWire in the first round of seed fund via the crowdfunding platform FringeBacker in 2015. As a non-profit public service news agency, it was established on 18 August 2015, and became operational on 1 March 2016. FactWire mainly focuses on watchdog investigative reporting wired to a large number of Hong Kong's mainstream news outlets. </p>
<p>A screenshot of the website as of 25 April 2022:
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<p>(State: Done)</p>
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SHKO (Save Hong Kong Online) is a community project to preserve those disappearing online web sites since 2019 and in a wake of [[the vast disappearing of civil society and independent media | background]]. It's anonymous and open source, with the support from a lot of online users. 


## Goals
- To preserve as much information as possible before its disappearance during Hong Kong's great transition
- To illustrate a viable method that everyone can use to help preserve online heritage with no pains
- To demonstrate global collaborations to save local digital heritages with best practices


## Quick Facts

We are working on over dozens of [[websites or online causes | sites]] in Hong Kong in the past two decades which has been forced to shutdown or at the brink of disappearing. We'd welcome anyone help [[contribute | howto]] to the content and/or [[sponsor | sponsorship]] our program to sustain it together. 

Examples:
- [[sites.appledaily]] (Extincted)
- [[sites.inmediahk]] (In Danger)



