Fact-checking

Oscar Westlund is Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, where he co-leads the OsloMet Digital Journalism Research Group. He holds a secondary appointment at University of Gothenburg and is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism. He specializes in digital journalism, fact-checking, platforms, epistemology, media management, news consumption, and, mobile media.

• Research into Fact-checking: Introducing the State of the Art in the Field 1. Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation 2. Digital Infrastructures of COVID-19 Misinformation: A New Conceptual and Analytical Perspective on Fact-Checking 3. Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods 4. The Watchdog Role of Fact-Checkers in Different Media Systems 5. Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills 6. From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field 7. The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations 8. Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World 9. Show Me the Facts: Newsroom-Affiliated and Independent Fact-Checkers’ Transparency Acts 10. Cutting through the Hype: Understanding the Implications of Deepfakes for the Fact-Checking Actor-Network 11. The Corrective Effect of Fact-Checking and Hostile Media Perceptions: A Three-Way Interaction Model between Social Media News Usage and Political Misperceptions 12. Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age 13. Factbait: Emotionality of Fact-Checking Tweets and Users’ Engagement during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and the COVID-19 Pandemic 14. The Alternative Truth Kept Hidden From Us: The Effects of Multimodal Disinformation Disseminated by Ordinary Citizens and Alternative Hyper-Partisan Media: Evidence From the US and India 15. Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection 16. A Case of Claims and Facts: Automated Fact-Checking the Future of Journalism’s Authority 17. AI as an Apolitical Referee: Using Alternative Sources to Decrease Partisan Biases in the Processing of Fact-Checking Messages 18. Do You Speak Disinformation? Computational Detection of Deceptive News-Like Content Using Linguistic and Stylistic Features 19. Misinformation and Fact-checking Amid Platforms: Advancing a Research Agenda