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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
exaly   +3 more sources

Fact-Checking Politicians

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive to negative fact-checking.
Andrea Mattozzi   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Fact-checking

2022
Abstract This chapter, authored by veteran science journalist Brooke Borel, seeks to demystify the process of fact checking—a key editorial step for ensuring that stories are both fair and accurate. It also argues that the benefits of understanding how fact checking works goes well beyond any individual story: While some outlets have ...
Camille J. Saucier, Nathan Walter
openaire   +2 more sources

Human and Technological Infrastructures of Fact-checking

open access: yesProceedings 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
exaly   +3 more sources

MiniCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of LLMs on Grounding Documents

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Recognizing if LLM output can be grounded in evidence is central to many tasks in NLP: retrieval-augmented generation, summarization, document-grounded dialogue, and more. Current approaches to this kind of fact-checking are based on verifying each piece
Liyan Tang, Philippe Laban, Greg Durrett
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Show Me the Work: Fact-Checkers' Requirements for Explainable Automated Fact-Checking

International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The pervasiveness of large language models and generative AI in online media has amplified the need for effective automated fact-checking to assist fact-checkers in tackling the increasing volume and sophistication of misinformation.
Greta Warren   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media

arXiv.org
Social media platforms have traditionally relied on internal moderation teams and partnerships with independent fact-checking organizations to identify and flag misleading content. Recently, however, platforms including X (formerly Twitter) and Meta have
Isabelle Augenstein   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

LoCal: Logical and Causal Fact-Checking with LLM-Based Multi-Agents

The Web Conference
With the development of social media, people are exposed to a vast amount of unverified information, making fact-checking particularly important. Existing fact-checking methods primarily encourage breaking down claims into more easily solvable sub-tasks,
Jiatong Ma, Linmei Hu, Rang Li, Wenbo Fu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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