Fighting misperceptions and doubting journalists' objectivity: A review of fact-checking literature

S Nieminen, L Rapeli - Political studies review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Fact checkers evaluate the truthfulness of political claims appearing in public. The practice
has increased enormously in recent years. This review analyses research concerning …

Revisiting the epistemology of fact-checking

MA Amazeen - Critical review, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Joseph E. Uscinski and Ryden W. Butler (2013) argue that fact-checking should
be condemned to the dustbin of history because the methods fact-checkers use to select …

The agenda-setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016

CJ Vargo, L Guo, MA Amazeen - New media & society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the agenda-setting power of fake news and fact-checkers who fight
them through a computational look at the online mediascape from 2014 to 2016. Although …

Partisan selective sharing: The biased diffusion of fact-checking messages on social media

J Shin, K Thorson - Journal of communication, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Using large Twitter datasets collected during the 2012 US presidential election, we
examined how partisanship shapes patterns of sharing and commenting on candidate fact …

Belief echoes: The persistent effects of corrected misinformation

E Thorson - Political Communication, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Across three separate experiments, I find that exposure to negative political information
continues to shape attitudes even after the information has been effectively discredited. I call …

Understanding innovations in journalistic practice: A field experiment examining motivations for fact-checking

L Graves, B Nyhan, J Reifler - Journal of communication, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Why has fact-checking spread so quickly within US political journalism? In the first field
experiment conducted among reporters, we varied journalist exposure to messages that …

The effect of fact‐checking on elites: A field experiment on US state legislators

B Nyhan, J Reifler - American journal of political science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Does external monitoring improve democratic performance? Fact‐checking has come to
play an increasingly important role in political coverage in the United States, but some …

Fact-checking effectiveness as a function of format and tone: Evaluating FactCheck. org and FlackCheck. org

DG Young, KH Jamieson, S Poulsen… - Journalism & Mass …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This experiment explores the role of information format (print vs. video) and tone (humorous–
nonhumorous) in shaping message interest and belief correction in the context of political …

Una reflexión sobre la epistemología del fact-checking journalism: retos y dilemas

C Rodríguez Pérez - Revista de comunicación, 2020 - scielo.org.pe
El periodismo de verificación o fact-checking journalism ha experimentado un auge en todo
el mundo y mayor incidencia en el debate público. Este artículo plantea una reflexión sobre …

Discriminative predicate path mining for fact checking in knowledge graphs

B Shi, T Weninger - Knowledge-based systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Traditional fact checking by experts and analysts cannot keep pace with the volume of newly
created information. It is important and necessary, therefore, to enhance our ability to …