Checking the Fact-Checkers

A Global Perspective

Celine Yunya Song, Daya K. Thussu, Drew Margolin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040748138
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective brings together a global group of leading and emerging scholars to explore industry practices and theoretical approaches to fact-checking.

Scholars from different regions, fields, and disciplines provide a unique global and multi-disciplinary perspective for understanding the landscape of fact-checking initiatives and formulating effective and context-dependent strategies. Drawing on diverse international case studies, the authors explore the dynamics of global fact-checking initiatives and provide in-depth analyses of both its practical and theoretical aspects. Chapters cover the impact of fact-checking on professional journalism; fact-checking techniques; how people use fact-checking and their attitudes towards it; the civic role of fact-checking in different political systems; alternative approaches to and critiques of the concept of fact-checking, and what its limitations might be.

This book will be an important resource for students, teachers, and researchers in journalism, media and communication, politics and sociology, as well as those in the fields of artificial intelligence, information systems, law, policy, and ethics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective
• 1 A Study of the Causes and Generation Mechanisms of International Fake News: A Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
• 2 Notes on Truth-Seeking Conceptions and Fact-Checking Practices in the Chinese News System
• 3 Expanding Repertoires: The Emerging Fact-Checking Traditions in the 2022 Philippines Election
• 4 Contextualizing Institutional Roots, Normative Perceptions, and Practices of Fact-Checking: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Fact-Checking Initiatives
• 5 ‘Biased Facts’: Exploring Fact-Checking and Ideological Contestation in India
• 6 Mapping the Boundaries of Fact-Checking: Concrete Versus Arbitrary Criteria for Misinformation Selection
• 7 Towards an Integrative Model for Automated Detection of Fake News
• 8 Propagation Structure Learning for Misinformation Detection
• 9 COVID-19 Fake News Detection on Cantonese Social Media: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning-Based Methods
• 10 Selective Citations in Fact-Checking: Proposing an Analytical Approach
• 11 Natural Disasters Meet Rumours on Social Media: Do Spatiotemporal and Emotion Proximity Matter for Spread and Correction?
• 12 Fact-Checking, Belief Accuracy and Media Trust: A Research Synthesis
• 13 The Promises and Pitfalls of Growing Public Participation in Fact-Checking: Reflection of Technical and Cultural Factors in Asian Societies
• 14 Fact-Checking by the People? Report-Based ‘Rumour-Refuting’ on Chinese Social Media and Media Populism
• 15 A Remedy for Epistemic Pollution? Public and Professional Reactions to Fact-Checking with Wikipedia in Australian Classrooms
• 16 EUfactcheck.eu Student Project: The Network, the Platform, the Tools
• 17 On the Democratic Role of Fact-Checking: A Reflective Essay
• 18 Fact-Checking Political Narratives
• 19 Conspiracy Theories, Their Critical Value, and the Limits of Fact-Checking: Climate Change Documentaries
• 20 From Fact-Checking to Debunking: The French Experience in the Fight Against Disinformation
• Index