“…Although it is controversial whether disinformation has actually influenced voter behavior (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017;Fletcher, Cornia, Graves, & Nielsen, 2018;Nelson & Taneja, 2018), policy-makers, journalists and scholars have raised questions about how the problem of online disinformation can be solved (High level Group on fake news and online disinformation, 2018). To combat attempts at manipulation and to debunk false information, an increasing number of fact-checking platforms have appeared in recent years (Amazeen, 2017;Ciampaglia, 2017;Haigh, Haigh, & Kozak, 2017;Thorson, 2016;Young, Jamieson, Poulsen, & Goldring, 2018). The first fact-checking organizations were launched in the US in the early 2000s.…”