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Checking PolitiFact’s Fact-Checks [PDF]

open access: yesJournalism Studies, 2021
In this article we examine PolitiFact’s fact-checking process. We collect a random sample of 858 fact-checks and evaluate them in the light of criteria based on or inspired by fact-checking literat...
Nieminen Sakari, Sankari Valtteri
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Using NLP for Fact Checking: A Survey

open access: yesDesigns, 2021
In recent years, disinformation and “fake news” have been spreading throughout the internet at rates never seen before. This has created the need for fact-checking organizations, groups that seek out claims and comment on their veracity, to spawn ...
Eric Lazarski   +2 more
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Checking the Fact-Checkers: Analyzing the Content of Fact-Checking Organizations as Initiatives for Hoax Eradication in Indonesia

open access: yesJurnal Aspikom, 2023
Fact-checking practices are one of the initiatives to combat the spread of hoaxes. An organization called MAFINDO is one of Indonesia's pioneers of fact-checking initiatives.
Detta Rahmawan   +2 more
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Generating Fact Checking Briefs [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
Fact checking at scale is difficult -- while the number of active fact checking websites is growing, it remains too small for the needs of the contemporary media ecosystem. However, despite good intentions, contributions from volunteers are often error-prone, and thus in practice restricted to claim detection.
Angela Fan   +7 more
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Generating Fact Checking Explanations [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
Most existing work on automated fact checking is concerned with predicting the veracity of claims based on metadata, social network spread, language used in claims, and, more recently, evidence supporting or denying claims. A crucial piece of the puzzle that is still missing is to understand how to automate the most elaborate part of the process ...
Pepa Atanasova   +3 more
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Media literacy and fact checking: part two

open access: yesХабаршы Журналистика сериясы, 2020
This is the second part of the author’s study from the Michigan State University, devoted to the problems of identification and description of the disinformation crisis in the media and social media.
Фридман Э.
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Análisis de las propuestas educativas de las plataformas de fact checking en España, Italia y Portugal

open access: yesRevista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, 2023
En un entorno marcado por la normalización de la desinformación (Magallón-Rosa y Sánchez-Duarte 2021, p. 145) y con una preocupación ciudadana e institucional sobre las consecuencias de la misma urge implementar soluciones que refuercen la resiliencia de
Eva Mª Ferreras Rodríguez
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Checking how fact-checkers check

open access: yesResearch & Politics, 2018
Fact-checking has gained prominence as a movement for revitalizing truth-seeking ideals in journalism. While fact-checkers are often assumed to code facts accurately, few studies have formally assessed fact-checkers’ overall performance.
Chloe Lim
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Bolsonaro versus Governadores: Como o Fact-Checking de Governos Estaduais Petistas Embute Disputas Políticas no Contexto da Pandemia

open access: yesRevista Comunicando, 2021
Este artigo discute como checagens oficiais realizadas por governos estaduais liderados pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) embutem disputas políticas travadas com o presidente do Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, no contexto da pandemia da covid-19.
Rômulo Almeida da Costa   +1 more
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Toward computational fact-checking [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2014
Our news are saturated with claims of "facts" made from data. Database research has in the past focused on how to answer queries, but has not devoted much attention to discerning more subtle qualities of the resulting claims, e.g., is a claim "cherry-picking"?
You Wu 0001   +4 more
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