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Fact-checking

Fact-checking is the process of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements. Fact-checking can be conducted before or after the text or content is published or otherwise disseminated.

History, Post hoc fact-checking & Pre-publication fact-checking

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History of fact-checking

Types of fact-checking

Post hoc fact-checking

Pre-publication fact-checking

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Fact-checking

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Fact-checking

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related to history · 19
Fact-checking → Accuracy, Associated Press, Bureau, Colin Dickey, Facts, Fair Play, Henry Luce, In, Independent, Key, More, New York World, One, PolitiFact, Ralph Pulitzer, Sensationalist, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time
related to Types of fact-checking · 15
Fact-checking → Africa Check, African, Ante, Checker, External, FactCheck, Full Fact, Pinocchios, PolitiFact, Post, Several, The Washington Post Fact, TRUTH-O-METER, UK, US
related to Alumni of the role · 14
Fact-checking → American, Cooper, Former, Gaddis, Harper's MagazineDavid, Heffernan, Hodge, Kirkpatrick, McSweeney's Editor, Susan Choi, Television, The, The New York Times, Wilsey
related to Detecting fake news · 12
Fact-checking → Duke University's, Fake, Furthermore, On, Reporters' Lab, Snopes, Some, The, There, These, United States, Websites
related to Limitations and controversies · 10
Fact-checking → Criticism, Critics, In, In September, Likely, One, Rasmussen Reports, Research, Sixty-two, Voters
related to External links · 9
Fact-checking → Duke Reporters' LabFact-Checking, Eastern Washington University, Fact-Checking Sites, Ielleen, International Fact Checking NetworkFact-checking, Journalism, Miller, Poynter Institute, Research Guides
related to Post hoc fact-checking · 9
Fact-checking → Donald Trump, Europe, External, However, In, Latin America, United States, US, US President
related to Checking original reportage · 8
Fact-checking → Any, Anyway, Glass's, He, If, Michael Kelly, Stephen Glass, The New Republic
related to Consistency across fact-checking organizations · 7
Fact-checking → Checker, FactCheck, For, One, PolitiFact, The Washington Post's Fact, This
related to Informal fact-checking · 3
Fact-checking → He, Individual, Rabbi Moshe Benovitz

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Fact-checkingis aprocess of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements0.90text
PolitiFactinstance ofA 2018 study found that Republicans were more likely to correct their false information on voter fraud if the correction came from Breitbart News rather than a non-partisan neut…0.80text
n-gram encodingsinstance ofmodeling techniques0.80text
bag of words have served as other linguistic techniques to estimate the legitimacy of a news sourceinstance ofmodeling techniques0.80text
Facebookinstance ofThe spread of fake news via social media platforms0.80text
Twitterinstance ofThe spread of fake news via social media platforms0.80text
Instagram presents the opportunity for extremely negative effects on society therefore new fields of research regarding fake news detection on social media is gaining momentuminstance ofThe spread of fake news via social media platforms0.80text
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viewing structured accuracy assessments on postsinstance ofEfforts0.80text
Breitbartinstance ofpromoting outlets that have shared false information0.80text
The Daily Caller on Facebook's newsfeedinstance ofpromoting outlets that have shared false information0.80text
Metainstance ofmany social media platforms0.80text

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