Where Do Facts Matter? The Digital Paradox in Magazines’ Fact-checking Processes

Sivek, Susan Currie; Bloyd-Peshkin, Sharon

doi:10.1080/17512786.2019.1643767

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“…These findings underlie the premises that motivate many fact-checkers: that facts matter, that citizens need and deserve to be properly informed, and that strengthening trust in quality information is crucial ( Singer, 2021a ). Ensuring the accuracy of information has long been a hallmark of quality journalism, and media outlets have historically had editors devoted to checking facts ( Cortada & Aspray, 2020 ; Graves & Amazeen, 2019 ; Sivek & Bloyd-Peshkin, 2018 ). But fact-checking as a distinct journalistic form in its own right dates only to the late 2000s ( Graves et al, 2016 ), emerging in the United States around the time that social media was becoming prominent; by early 2023, nearly 400 fact-checkers operated around the world ( Duke Reporters Lab, n.d .).…”

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Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Singer

2023

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Based on a study of U.S.-tagged items in a global database of fact-checked statements about the novel coronavirus throughout the first year of the pandemic, this article explores the nature of fact-checkers’ “retroactive gatekeeping.” This term is introduced here to describe the process of assessing the veracity of information after it has entered the public domain rather than before. Although an overwhelming majority of statements across 16 thematic categories were deemed false and debunked, often repeatedly, misinformation continued to circulate freely and widely.

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Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Singer

2023

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Human and Technological Infrastructures of Fact-checking

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2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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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 core to the fact-checking process. This paper unpacks the fact-checking process by revealing the infrastructures---both human and technological---that support and shape fact-checking work. We interviewed 26 participants belonging to 16 fact-checking teams and organizations with representation from 4 continents. Through these interviews, we describe the human infrastructure of fact-checking by identifying and presenting, in-depth, the roles of six primary stakeholder groups, 1) Editors, 2) External fact-checkers, 3) In-house fact-checkers, 4) Investigators and researchers, 5) Social media managers, and 6) Advocators. Our findings highlight that the fact-checking process is a collaborative effort among various stakeholder groups and associated technological and informational infrastructures. By rendering visibility to the infrastructures, we reveal how fact-checking has evolved to include both short-term claims centric and long-term advocacy centric fact-checking. Our work also identifies key social and technical needs and challenges faced by each stakeholder group. Based on our findings, we suggest that improving the quality of fact-checking requires systematic changes in the civic, informational, and technological contexts.

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Where Do Facts Matter? The Digital Paradox in Magazines’ Fact-checking Processes

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Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Human and Technological Infrastructures of Fact-checking

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