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Fake News und Desinformation: Herausforderungen für die vernetzte Gesellschaft und die empirische Forschung
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 361 pp.
"Desinformation ist eine Konstante der politischen Kommunikation. Doch mit der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten und der Brexit-Abstimmung in Großbritannien erhielten bewusst lancierte Falschnachrichten eine neue gesellschaftliche Bedeutung. Denn nun wurde sichtbar, welche
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Fact Checking vs. Fake News: Guidebook
Bosch Alumni Network (2020), 26 pp.
"Within Bosch Alumni Network, we have decided to seek for advice and expertise of media professionals dealing with fake news, disinformation and information verification. The result was “Fact check vs Fake news”, a three-day workshop on fake-news debunking and fact-checking that took place withi
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Fighting the Spread of False Information: A Fact-Checking and Verification Toolkit
Johannesburg: Africa Check; Fojo Media Institute (2020), 13 pp.
"This fact-checking and verification toolkit was developed by Africa Check for African journalists. It aims to equip journalists with the knowledge and practical tips to stop the spread of false information. This toolkit, which was developed as the world was in the midst of its battle against the Co
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Exposing the Invisible: The Kit
Berlin: Tactical Tech (2020), 96 pp.
"The Kit is a collaborative, self-learning resource that makes investigative techniques and tools used by experienced investigators more accessible to people and communities who feel motivated to start their own investigations, collect and verify information, build evidence and create a better under
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Lutter contre la diffusion de fausses informations: Un ensemble d'outils pour la vérification des faits
Johannesburg: Africa Check (2020), 13 pp.
Redes sociales y plataformas de fact-checking contra la desinformación sobre la COVID-19
Hipertext.net, issue 21 (2020), pp. 79-92
"La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha generado una crisis sanitaria y comunicativa sin precedentes. A través de las plataformas digitales, se ha producido una ingente circulación de información falsa, inexacta o descontextualizada so-bre el coronavirus. Entre ella, cabe destacar los rumores, bulos y teo
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Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, volume 4, issue CSCW2, Article 130 (2020), 32 pp.
"The spread of misinformation on Facebook in Bangladesh, a country with a population of over 163 million, has resulted in chaos, hate attacks, and killings. By interviewing journalists, fact-checkers, in addition to surveying the general public, we analyzed the current state of verifying misinformat
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Fact-Checking and Source Verification Manual in Times of COVID-19: Journalists and Media Organizations
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2020), 50 pp.
"Without proper training in digital news verification, the dissemination of misinformation is both rapid and disastrous. Journalists are often processing a massive amount of information through social media with very little time to verify it--this presents unique challenges for journalists working w
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Citizen Journalism in China
Global Media and China, volume 4, issue 1 (2019), pp. 3-124
Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part III: How to Guide
Key Guides
Internews (2019), 61 pp.
"You will find information and advice on everything from how to source rumours and factcheck information, to how to share actionable and practical answers to address these rumours. Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology is designed to be flexible and responsive to local context – and you should be
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Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xix, 283 pp.
"This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider soci
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La posverdad: Una cartografía de los medios, las redes y la política
Barcelona: Gedisa (2019), 185 pp.
The Fact-Checking Preferences of Africacheck.org's Audiences in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 18 pp.
"Africa Check, the continent’s first independent fact-Checking organisation of which I was chief editor until July 2019, has itself expanded exponentially. The organisation –a non-profit mainly funded by large foundations– launched in 2012 in South Africa with a junior researcher and part-time
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Mobile-First Journalism: Producing News for Social and Interactive Media
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xiv, 223 pp.
Combining theory and practice, Mobile-First Journalism examines how audiences view, share and engage with journalism on internet-connected devices and through social media platforms. The book examines the interlinked relationship between mobile technology, social media and apps, covering the entire
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Pistas para chequear: Cómo hacer periodismo de verificación de datos
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción (2019), 88 pp.
"Colombiacheck es el primer portal de Colombia dedicado principalmente a la verificación de datos. Nació en 2016 como un proyecto de la asociación de periodistas Consejo de Redacción. La motivación inicial para crear Colombiacheck fue hacer verificación a los datos y al discurso del proceso de
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Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 41 pp.
"This report examines how digital-born news media in the Global South have developed innovative reporting and storytelling practices in response to growing disinformation problems. Based on field observation and interviews at Rappler in the Philippines, Daily Maverick in South Africa, and The Quint
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Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Study
Deep Insights
Internews (2019), 56 pp.
"Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology consists of four key functions: 1. A mechanism to determine and document which rumours are circulating; 2. An effective strategy to fact-check information and rumours; 3. A variety of accessible and inclusive mechanisms to share accurate responses to rumours; 4
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