Let’s make Fact-Checking engaging: a computational social science approach for the analysis and evaluation of Fact-Checking discourse at scale
To counter disinformation, a plethora of fact-checking organizations have arisen, but the fake news phenomenon is far from being solved. Whilst research in computational social science has widely focused on implementing automatic fact-checking, the analysis of the discourse features which make fact-checking impactful has been under-investigated. By combining social network analysis, emotion-based sentiment analysis and […]
Impartiality and cognitive bias in the fact-checking process: an overview
The lack of impartiality is increasingly used as an argument to attack the credibility of news media outlets, as well as to undermine the trustworthiness of fact-checkers. The impartiality of news, regardless of the source, in a polarized social media world, is not common ground knowledge, but it constitutes a standpoint that has to be […]