Boundaries Not Drawn

Graves, Lucas

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2016.1196602

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“…In this way the success of STF/ClaimReview moots what had been a long-running debate among fact-checkers over the use of ratings systems (Graves 2016(Graves , 2018b. Several high-profile outlets, including FactCheck.org and the U.K. site Full Fact, have vocally objected to rating schemes such as PolitiFact's 'Truth-O-Meter' as pseudoscientific and reductive.…”

Section: Discussion: Distribution and Disciplinementioning

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Discipline and promote: Building infrastructure and managing algorithms in a “structured journalism” project by professional fact-checking groups

Graves

Anderson

2020

New Media & Society

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News organizations have adapted in various ways to a digital media environment dominated by algorithmic gatekeepers such as search engines and social networks. This article dissects a campaign to actively shape that environment led by professional fact-checking organizations. We trace the development of the Share the Facts “widget,” a device designed to give fact-checks greater purchase in algorithmically governed media networks by driving adoption of a new data standard called ClaimReview. We show how “structured journalism” gave journalists a language for the social and technical challenges involved, and how this infrastructural technology mediates between fact-checkers, audiences, and platform companies. We argue that this standard-setting initiative exhibits both promotional and disciplining facets, offering greater distribution and impact to journalists while also defining their work in specific ways. Crucially, in this case, this disciplining influence reflects internal professional-institutional agendas in an emerging subfield of journalism as much as the demands of platform companies.

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Section: Discussion: Distribution and Disciplinementioning

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Discipline and promote: Building infrastructure and managing algorithms in a “structured journalism” project by professional fact-checking groups

Graves

Anderson

2020

New Media & Society

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“…A better understanding is required of how citizens respond to and interrogate a fact at these different phases of its life cycle. In particular, at a time when we are witnessing a "global surge" (Graves, 2018) in political fact-checking, and where some recent research (e.g., Lewandowsky et al, 2012;Berinsky, 2017) has indicated that efforts to correct or retract political misinformation can "backfire" and actually reinforce belief in the original flawed fact, we believe that further investigation of the impact of corrections and refutations on citizens' credibility judgements is required.…”

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Scottish citizens’ perceptions of the credibility of online political “facts” in the “fake news” era

Baxter

Marcella

Walicka

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that explored public perceptions of the credibility of “facts and figures” contained within five social media posts produced by political parties in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach The study consisted of an online survey conducted in Spring 2017 (n=538). Respondents were asked to gauge the reliability of “facts” contained within the posts, to provide reasons for their answers, and to indicate how they might go about confirming or debunking the figures. Findings Less than half the sample believed the posts’ content would be reliable. Credibility perceptions were influenced by various factors, including: a lack of cited sources; concerns about bias or spin; a lack of detail, definitions or contextual information; personal political allegiance and trust; negative campaign techniques; personal experience of policy issues; and more intuitive judgements. Only small numbers admitted that they would not know how to find out more about the issues or would be disinclined to look further. The majority appeared confident in their own abilities to find further information, yet were vague in describing their search strategies. Originality/value Relatively little empirical research has been conducted exploring the perceived credibility of political or government information online. It is believed that this is the first such study to have specifically investigated the Scottish political arena.

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“…Second, particularly beyond the US, fact-checking is often understood as a means of building or reforming democratic institutions, including the press. This is in spite of the prominence of non-journalistic/non-governmental organizations and universities involved in fact-checking internationally; fewer than half of global fact-checking organizations are affiliated with traditional news media outlets (Graves, 2016a;Graves and Cherubini, 2016).…”

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Journalistic interventions: The structural factors affecting the global emergence of fact-checking

Amazeen

2017

Journalism

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Since the emergence of FactCheck.org in the United States in 2003, fact-checking interventions have expanded both domestically and globally. The Duke Reporter’s Lab identified nearly 100 active initiatives around the world in 2016. Building off of previous exploratory work by Amazeen, this research utilizes the framework of critical juncture theory to examine why fact-checking interventions are spreading globally at this point in time. Seen as a professional reform movement in the journalistic community, historical research on reform movements suggests several possible factors influencing the emergence of fact-checking such as a decline in journalism, easy access to technology for the masses, and socio-political strife. This study offers empirical support that fact-checking may be understood as a democracy-building tool that emerges where democratic institutions are perceived to be weak or are under threat and examines similarities between the growth of fact-checking interventions and previous consumer reform movements. As politics increasingly adopts strategies orchestrated by marketing and advertising consultants and agencies – exemplified in the Brexit referendum – political fact-checking may benefit from examining the path of consumer reform movements. For, before fact-checking can be effective at informing individuals, it must first establish itself within a structural environment.

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Boundaries Not Drawn

Cited by 158 publications

References 19 publications

Discipline and promote: Building infrastructure and managing algorithms in a “structured journalism” project by professional fact-checking groups

Discipline and promote: Building infrastructure and managing algorithms in a “structured journalism” project by professional fact-checking groups

Scottish citizens’ perceptions of the credibility of online political “facts” in the “fake news” era

Journalistic interventions: The structural factors affecting the global emergence of fact-checking

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