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Checking how fact-checkers check [PDF]
Research & 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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Human and Technological Infrastructures of Fact-checking
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2022 Increasing demands for fact-checking have led to a growing interest in developing systems and tools to automate the fact-checking process. However, such systems are limited in practice because their system design often does not take into account how fact-checking is done in the real world and ignores the insights and needs of various stakeholder groups
Prerna Juneja, Tanushree Mitra
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Checking PolitiFact’s Fact-Checks [PDF]
Journalism 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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The Demand for Fact-Checking [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an ideologically aligned source, even though fact-checking increases ...
Chopra, Felix +2 more
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Trust the crowd: Crowdsourced fact-checking is as effective at reducing confidence in misinformation as expert fact-checking [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe rapid spread of misinformation on social media has created significant challenges for expert fact-checking initiatives to counter in a timely and effective manner.
Cindy Phan Vu, Lauren L. Saling
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Social Media + Society, 2023 As fact-checking videos increasingly circulate on video-sharing platforms, more research is needed to understand the prevalent features of such videos and how they are associated with audience engagement.
Yingdan Lu, Cuihua (Cindy) Shen
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Fact Checking with Insufficient Evidence
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 AbstractAutomating the fact checking (FC) process relies on information obtained from external sources. In this work, we posit that it is crucial for FC models to make veracity predictions only when there is sufficient evidence and otherwise indicate when it is not enough.
Pepa Atanasova +3 more
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A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Abstract Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore, researchers have been exploring how fact-checking can be automated, using techniques based on natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation,
Zhijiang Guo +2 more
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Fact-checking en el periodismo mexicano: Análisis de la experiencia Verificado 2018
Convergencia, 2020 Este trabajo analiza cómo se incorpora el fact-checking en el periodismo mexicano, tomando en cuenta la experiencia de Verificado 2018. Se realizaron entrevistas a profundidad con periodistas que colaboraron en el proyecto. Los resultados indican que los
Rocío Galarza-Molina
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Getting it right, eh? Best practices for post hoc fact-checking in Canadian news [PDF]
Facts & FrictionsBuilding on previous research mapping the terrain of the post hoc fact-checking practice in Canadian journalism, this research note evaluates the best methodology for verifying the accuracy of political and other claims and texts. Reviewing fact-checking
Brooks DeCillia, Brad Clark
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