SPANISH-SPEAKING FACT-CHECKERS AROUND THE WORLD: PROFILES, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES AMONG FACT CHECKING PROFESSIONALS
[...]research on information verification has mostly focused on the content analysis of hoaxes or fact-checking methodologies and not so much on the role of professionals who are dedicated to checking the veracity of public discourse. The global crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic had a specia...
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| Published in: | SEECI 2000 2021-01 (54), p.49-76 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | [...]research on information verification has mostly focused on the content analysis of hoaxes or fact-checking methodologies and not so much on the role of professionals who are dedicated to checking the veracity of public discourse. The global crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic had a special impact on the increase in the circulation of disinformation, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to speak of an "infodemic" and to call different actors to action to promote access to truthful information (WHO, December 11th, 2020). Graves (2018, p. 1) refers to the automation of verification as a way to "seek technological solutions to what is seen as a technological problem", a way to simplify the complexity of the informational reality and put aside the need for subjective filters. While it is true that the need for skills related to artificial intelligence and digital tools are turning the fact-checking professional into an increasingly specialized profile (Vizoso et al., 2018), we also find that this shift towards automation serves to vindicate the relevance of human fact-checkers, capable of working to control disinformation in a democratic reality that frequently, as Uscinski (2015) argues, is not verifiable, or cannot be divided into black and white. |
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| ISSN: | 1575-9628 1576-3420 |