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Balobaki: La démocratie congolaise à l’heure des réseaux sociaux, des fake news et de la manipulation
Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 164 pp.
Fighting Lies with Facts or Humor: Comparing the Effectiveness of Satirical and Regular Fact-Checks in Response to Misinformation and Disinformation
Communication Monographs, volume 90, issue 1 (2023), pp. 69-91
"This study tested the effectiveness of fact-check format (regular vs. satirical) to refute different types of false information. Specifically, we conducted a pre-registered online survey experiment (N = 849) that compared the effects of regular fact-checkers and satirist refutations in response to
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Open-Source Journalism in a Wired World: Spurred by Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Open-Source Investigations Are Being Integrated Into Standard Newsroom Practice
Nieman Reports, December 7 (2022)
"More than nine months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the online methods for tracking this war are many and proliferating, including the most obvious source of all — social media networks. A 2019 law designed to keep its military from posting on social media has not deterred Russian service
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Case Study: EthioCheck Lab. Developing Fact-Checking Strategies with Human Centered Design — Insights of an Approach in Ethiopia
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 42 pp.
"DW Akademie initiated a human-centered design (HCD) process as a starting point for a media development project in Ethiopia. The aim was to develop a better understanding and assess the current situation regarding misinformation and disinformation. The process with journalists and media experts fro
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After the Pandemic, Building Back a Stronger Media: Inspiring Initiatives in Ensuring Media Viability
Inspiring Practice
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 81 pp.
"The pandemic brought to crisis point prior trends facing independent news media, whether online or offline or hybrid. While media became more important than ever for citizens as a source of reliable information in an insecure and continuously changing world, newsrooms struggled to pay their bills.
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Una guía para principiantes para establecer una organización de fact-checking en América Latina y el Caribe
Montevideo: UNESCO (2022), 25 pp.
"El objetivo de la guía es que los interesados en establecer una organización de fact-checking en la región puedan entender conceptos básicos de cómo chequear frases de políticos y desmentir desinformaciones, así como también reciban recomendaciones sobre cómo difundir estas notas y otras s
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Fact-Checking Initiatives in Portuguese Language Countries: Checking Methods and Financing Strategies
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 600-625
"This work examines more closely the standardizing and the customizing aspects of active factchecking outlets in Portuguese-speaking countries, focusing on the verification methods and organizational models in use. Based on Content Analysis, we collected manually 318 posts during June 2019 from each
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Disinformation, Hoaxes, Curation and Verification: Review of Studies in Ibero-America 2017-2020
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 648-668
"This article is aligned with the recommendations of the main international organizations that fight against disinformation and infodemic, providing a review work that can be useful for researchers, professionals and scholars of the subject. Review articles like this one also help to establish futur
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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Inspiring Practice
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2022), 50 pp.
"The CEU Democracy Institute's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) embarked in November 2020 on a one-year project aimed at mapping and analyzing the work of the world's fact-checking groups, with a focus on their challenges, needs and successes. The project started with a survey of 30 fact-ch
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The Problem with Pictures: Source Analysis and Fact-Checking in a Time of War
Journalism Research, volume 5, issue 2 (2022), pp. 172-182
"Day in, day out, we journalists receive images from combat zones in Ukraine, without knowing whether they are authentic or have been manipulated. It is our job to find out, conducting analysis that takes both time and basic knowledge of image forensics. There are many testing tools and platforms fo
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Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media
Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 5 (2022), pp. 781-800
"This study examined (a) what message variations characterize news articles that fact-check (mis)information (N¼914) and (b) how those message features shape audience engagement with the articles. The study content-analyzed fact-checking coverage from major news outlets in South Korea using both ma
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The Rise of the Brazilian Fact-checking Movement: Between Economic Sustainability and Editorial Independence
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1077-1095
"This study addresses the expansion of Brazilian fact-checking enterprises, focusing on their funding sources and challenges to ensure editorial autonomy. The research is mainly grounded in semi-structured interviews with 16 fact-checkers from 13 active organizations, and includes complementary data
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Verification, monitoring and responsible reporting in an age of information disorder: A guide for practitioners in Southeast Asia
UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communications (IPDC) (2022), 41 pp.
Countering digital authoritarianism: Strengthening civil society capacity to reduce disinformation and digital authoritarianism in Iraq
Arlington, VA: Management Systems International;USAID (2022), 40 pp.
Disinformation studies: Perspectives from an emerging field
Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior;LabCom (2022), 299 pp.
"It all started at the ECREA 2021 Post Conference “Disinformation Studies: Perspectives to An Emerging Research Field”, which took place online, on September 10, 2021. The debate there quickly widened and was joined by other colleagues. The book that we bring you here is the result of part of th
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Medios nativos digitales en América Latina: Enfoques, retos y experiencias
Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana;Abya-Yala (2022), 224 pp.
"El panorama de los medios de comunicación han cambiado: de las grandes empresas editoras de periódicos, generalmente propiedad de grupos familiares, a los medios nativos digitales financiados por los propios periodistas o por ONGs gracias a los aportes ciudadanos o iniciativas de recaudación de
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Información y confianza: Comunicación contra la desinformación
Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);infociudadana (2021), 79 pp.
What Keeps Fact-Checking Organizations Up at Night
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2021), 15 pp.
"One of the main challenges for fact-checkers seems to be to better and more effectively reach their audience. That means, on the one hand, improved skills and capacity to reach out to a specific group of followers, but also techniques to more efficiently use social media as an audience generation t
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Fighting Disinfodemic in Central Africa: Fact-Checkers Experience Against Covid-19 Fake News
In: Perspectivas Multidisciplinares Da Comunicação Em Contexto De Pandemia. Vol I
F. R. Cádima; I. Ferreira (coord.)
Coleção ICNOVA (2021), pp. 144-164
"This chapter discusses two cases of new media formats combining journalistic skills, creativity and innovation when communicating risk and acting against disinfodemic, the collaborative website ‘Talato’ for fact-checking on the coronavirus in CAR and the fact-checking online platform ‘Congo C
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How COVID Drove the Evolution of Fact-Checking
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue 3 (2021), 23 pp.
"With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic came a flood of novel misinformation. Ranging from harmless false cures to dangerous rhetoric targeting minorities, coronavirus-related misinformation spread quickly wherever the virus itself did. Fact-checking organizations around the world took up the
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