COVID-19 in Chile

Studying the Downstream Effects of Fact-Checking on Social Media: Experiments on Correction Formats, Belief Accuracy, and Media Trust

“…Using Cohen's d as a metric to compare the effect of exposure to fact-checks relative to exposure to uncorrected misinformation, Walter et al (2021) Such a finding is particularly relevant, given the national context of the present study. Chile has seen important changes in the media landscape in recent years as well as major transformations in the political sphere and mounting social discontent (Bachmann et al, 2021). Citizens have become quite distrustful of political and media elites, and that is why confirmation that fact-checking works even under those conditions is important: these highly critical individuals-motivated skeptics, even-still benefit from improved belief accuracy after being exposed to misinformation corrections, and this in turns results in betterinformed citizens.…”

“…In the last decade, Chile has also shown increasing levels of social discontent, political disaffection, and distrust in institutions (Bachmann et al, 2021; Bargsted et al, 2022; Somma et al, 2021). For instance, less than one in five voters identifies with a political party, and less than 10% of the population reports trusting in political parties or Congress (Bargsted et al, 2022; Somma et al, 2021).…”

“…with news users seeing the press as part of the political and economic elites (Newman et al, 2020; Valenzuela et al, 2022). After a record low level in the wake of the October 2019 riots (Bachmann et al, 2021), by 2022, only a third of news users reported trusting news in general (Newman et al, 2022).…”

Nuances of Public Diplomacy: China in Chilean Op-Eds (2018-2021)

“…El Mercurio and La Tercera are general newspapers with the largest circulation in Chile; both considered conservatively leaning, reaching mostly Chilean middle-class and elite readers. El Mostrador is a widely-read commercially-run online newspaper that, over the last two decades, has positioned itself as a more diverse outlet within the mostly conservative and homogeneous Chilean media outlets (see Bachmann, Valenzuela & Figueroa-Bustos, 2021), which often showcases different opinions from a broader range of political opinions and is left-leaning. Diario Financiero is the leading business newspaper in Chile with a politically conservative and economically neoliberal editorial approach.…”

Periodismo en duelo: adaptación al entorno digital en Chile a partir de la crisis social y la pandemia de COVID-19

“…Crisis como las mencionadas al comienzo de este artículo profundizaron estos desafíos en la medida en que las nuevas plataformas se convirtieron en espacio profuso de desórdenes informativos (Gutiérrez-Coba et al, 2020;Bachmann et al, 2021), especialmente de desinformación. Al mismo tiempo abrieron un nuevo espacio y rol para los medios que han concentrado en los últimos años parte importante de sus esfuerzos en tareas de verificación -fact checking-como una forma de reposicionarse ante la población (Del Hoyo Hurtado et al, 2020).…”