Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xviii, 319 pp.
Contains tables, figures, index
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
ISBN 978-1-04-051163-3
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Celine Yunya Song, Daya Thussu and Drew Margolin, 1
1 A study of the causes and generation mechanisms of international fake news: A Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis / Zhao Yonghua and Dou Shuqi, 11
2 Notes on Truth-seeking Conceptions and Fact-checking Practices in the Chinese News System / Chenyao Wang, 26
3 Expanding Repertoires: The Emerging Fact-Checking Traditions in the 2022 Philippines Election / Ma. Diosa Labiste and Yvonne T. Chua, 38
4 Contextualizing Institutional Roots, Normative Perceptions, and Practices of Fact-Checking: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Fact-Checking Initiatives / Yuanhang Lu and Bess Yue, 53
5 ‘Biased facts’: exploring fact-checking and ideological contestation in India / Anilesh Kumar, 75
6 Mapping the Boundaries of Fact-checking: Concrete Versus Arbitrary Criteria for Misinformation Selection / Stephanie Jean Tsang, 89
7 Towards an Integrative Model for the Automated Detection of Fake News / Chi-Kit Chan, Keith Kwok-Wai Cheung, Jing Wu and Paul Siu-Nam Lee, 103
8 Propagation Structure Learning for Misinformation Detection / Songlin Hu, Wei Zhou, Lingwei Wei and Ziang Hu, 116
9 COVID-19 Fake News Detection on Cantonese Social Media: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning-based Methods / Ziwei Wang, Minzhu Zhao, Yu Chen, Celine Yunya Song and Liang Lan, 139
10 Selective citations in fact-checking: Proposing an analytical approach / Chris Chao Su, Yi Grace Ji, Arunima Krishna, James Cummings, Rosalynn A. Vasquez, Harsh Taneja and Michelle A. Amazeen, 154
11 Natural Disasters Meet Rumours on Social Media: Do Spatiotemporal and Emotion Proximity Matter for Spread and Correction? / Wei Zhai, 171
12 Fact-checking, Belief Accuracy and Media Trust: A Research Synthesis / Ingrid Bachmann and Sebastián Valenzuela, 183
13 The Promises and Pitfalls of Growing Public Participation in Fact-checking: Technical and Cultural Factors in East Asian Societies / Nick Yin Zhang, 196
14 Fact-checking by the people? Report-based ‘rumour-refuting’ on Chinese social media and media populism / Yusi Liu, Ruiming Zhou and Wenjie Yan, 211
15 A remedy for epistemic pollution? Public and professional reactions to fact-checking with Wikipedia in Australian classrooms / Mathieu O’Neil, Rachel Cunneen and Megan Deas, 225
16 EUfactcheck.eu student project: the network, the platform, the tools / Andreea Alina Mogoș and Alexandra Szilagyi, 238
17 On the democratic role of fact checking: A reflective essay / Marie-Noëlle Doutreix and Alan Ouakrat, 254
18 Fact-checking political narratives / Jen Birks, 266
19 Conspiracy Theories, Their Critical Value, and the Limits of Fact-checking: Climate Change Documentaries / Kenneth Paul Tan, 279
20 From fact-checking to debunking: the French experience in the fight against disinformation / Florian Dauphin , 293
1 A study of the causes and generation mechanisms of international fake news: A Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis / Zhao Yonghua and Dou Shuqi, 11
2 Notes on Truth-seeking Conceptions and Fact-checking Practices in the Chinese News System / Chenyao Wang, 26
3 Expanding Repertoires: The Emerging Fact-Checking Traditions in the 2022 Philippines Election / Ma. Diosa Labiste and Yvonne T. Chua, 38
4 Contextualizing Institutional Roots, Normative Perceptions, and Practices of Fact-Checking: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Fact-Checking Initiatives / Yuanhang Lu and Bess Yue, 53
5 ‘Biased facts’: exploring fact-checking and ideological contestation in India / Anilesh Kumar, 75
6 Mapping the Boundaries of Fact-checking: Concrete Versus Arbitrary Criteria for Misinformation Selection / Stephanie Jean Tsang, 89
7 Towards an Integrative Model for the Automated Detection of Fake News / Chi-Kit Chan, Keith Kwok-Wai Cheung, Jing Wu and Paul Siu-Nam Lee, 103
8 Propagation Structure Learning for Misinformation Detection / Songlin Hu, Wei Zhou, Lingwei Wei and Ziang Hu, 116
9 COVID-19 Fake News Detection on Cantonese Social Media: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning-based Methods / Ziwei Wang, Minzhu Zhao, Yu Chen, Celine Yunya Song and Liang Lan, 139
10 Selective citations in fact-checking: Proposing an analytical approach / Chris Chao Su, Yi Grace Ji, Arunima Krishna, James Cummings, Rosalynn A. Vasquez, Harsh Taneja and Michelle A. Amazeen, 154
11 Natural Disasters Meet Rumours on Social Media: Do Spatiotemporal and Emotion Proximity Matter for Spread and Correction? / Wei Zhai, 171
12 Fact-checking, Belief Accuracy and Media Trust: A Research Synthesis / Ingrid Bachmann and Sebastián Valenzuela, 183
13 The Promises and Pitfalls of Growing Public Participation in Fact-checking: Technical and Cultural Factors in East Asian Societies / Nick Yin Zhang, 196
14 Fact-checking by the people? Report-based ‘rumour-refuting’ on Chinese social media and media populism / Yusi Liu, Ruiming Zhou and Wenjie Yan, 211
15 A remedy for epistemic pollution? Public and professional reactions to fact-checking with Wikipedia in Australian classrooms / Mathieu O’Neil, Rachel Cunneen and Megan Deas, 225
16 EUfactcheck.eu student project: the network, the platform, the tools / Andreea Alina Mogoș and Alexandra Szilagyi, 238
17 On the democratic role of fact checking: A reflective essay / Marie-Noëlle Doutreix and Alan Ouakrat, 254
18 Fact-checking political narratives / Jen Birks, 266
19 Conspiracy Theories, Their Critical Value, and the Limits of Fact-checking: Climate Change Documentaries / Kenneth Paul Tan, 279
20 From fact-checking to debunking: the French experience in the fight against disinformation / Florian Dauphin , 293
