Checking the Fact-Checkers

Checking the Fact-Checkers offers a multi-disciplinary resource of global and state-of-the-art academic research and industrial practices in fact-checking from leading and emerging scholars around the world.

Chapters in this book provide a unique global and multi-disciplinary perspective for understanding the landscape of fact-checking initiatives and formulating effective and context-dependent strategies of fact-checking. Scholars from different regions, fields, and disciplines explore the dynamics of global fact-checking initiatives and provide in-depth analyses of both its practical and theoretical aspects. Arranged thematically, the book first focuses on the impact of fact-checking to the practice and principles of professional journalism, then reports on the latest research into the methods and models of fact-checking techniques and solutions. The focus then shifts to the consumers of fact-checking, on how people use fact-checking and their attitudes towards it, before looking at the civic role of fact-checking in different political systems and how children and young people can be educated and trained to be ‘fact-checkers’ themselves. The volume concludes with alternative approaches to and critiques of the concept of fact-checking, to understand 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.