Political Misinformation

What makes a claim checkworthy? An investigation into the selection criteria for fact-checking using news value theory
Fact-checking is a key method for combating disinformation. However, the question arises as to how fact-checkers select the claims they …
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All The (Fake) News That’s Fit to Share? News Values in Perceived Misinformation across Twenty-Four Countries
While there is a strong scholarly interest surrounding the content of political misinformation online, much of this research concerns …
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Separate worlds of misinformation. An explorative study of checked claims in German public broadcast news and talk shows.
Research on misinformation has mostly focused on social and alternative media. By contrast, we know little about the extent of …
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Separate worlds of misinformation. An explorative study of checked claims in German public broadcast news and talk shows.