Checking the Fact-Checkers A Global Perspective

Introduction, Celine Yunya Song, Daya Thussu and Drew Margolin 

1. A study of the causes and generation mechanisms of international fake news: A Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Zhao Yonghua and Dou Shuqi

2. Notes on Truth-seeking Conceptions and Fact-checking Practices in the Chinese News System, Chenyao Wang

3. Expanding Repertoires: The Emerging Fact-Checking Traditions in the 2022 Philippines Election, Ma. Diosa Labiste and Yvonne T. Chua

4. Contextualizing Institutional Roots, Normative Perceptions, and Practices of Fact-Checking: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Fact-Checking Initiatives, Yuanhang Lu and Bess Yue

5. ‘Biased facts’: exploring fact-checking and ideological contestation in India, Anilesh Kumar

6. Mapping the Boundaries of Fact-checking: Concrete Versus Arbitrary Criteria for Misinformation Selection, Stephanie Jean Tsang

7. Towards an Integrative Model for the Automated Detection of Fake News, Chi-Kit Chan, Keith Kwok-Wai Cheung, Jing Wu and Paul Siu-Nam Lee

8. Propagation Structure Learning for Misinformation Detection, Songlin Hu, Wei Zhou, Lingwei Wei and Ziang Hu

9. COVID-19 Fake News Detection on Cantonese Social Media: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning-based Methods, Ziwei Wang, Minzhu Zhao, Yu Chen, Celine Yunya Song and Liang Lan

10. Selective citations in fact-checking: Proposing an analytical approach, Chris Chao Su, Yi Grace Ji, Arunima Krishna, James Cummings, Rosalynn A. Vasquez, Harsh Taneja and Michelle A. Amazeen

11. Natural Disasters Meet Rumours on Social Media: Do Spatiotemporal and Emotion Proximity Matter for Spread and Correction? Wei Zhai

12. Fact-checking, Belief Accuracy and Media Trust: A Research Synthesis, Ingrid Bachmann and Sebastián Valenzuela

13. The Promises and Pitfalls of Growing Public Participation in Fact-checking: Technical and Cultural Factors in East Asian Societies, Nick Yin Zhang

14. Fact-checking by the people? Report-based ‘rumour-refuting’ on Chinese social media and media populism*, Yusi Liu, Ruiming Zhou and Wenjie Yan

15. A remedy for epistemic pollution? Public and professional reactions to fact-checking with Wikipedia in Australian classrooms, Mathieu O’Neil, Rachel Cunneen and Megan Deas

16. EUfactcheck.eu student project: the network, the platform, the tools, Andreea Alina Mogoș and Alexandra Szilagyi

17. On the democratic role of fact checking: A reflective essay, Marie-Noëlle Doutreix and Alan Ouakrat

18. Fact-checking political narratives, Jen Birks

19. Conspiracy Theories, Their Critical Value, and the Limits of Fact-checking: Climate Change Documentaries, Kenneth Paul Tan

20. From fact-checking to debunking: the French experience in the fight against disinformation, Florian Dauphin 

Index

Biography

Celine Yunya Song is Professor in the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research spans digital media, global communication, computational social science, and cyber-psychology and behavior. Previously, she served as a professor and associate dean at the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. She is also an associate editor of Computers in Human Behavior and Mass Communication and Society.

Daya K. Thussu is Professor of International Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

Drew Margolin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. His research focuses on computational social science, social networks, and misinformation. He is also associate editor for the journal Computational Communication Research.