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1. How COVID drove the evolution of fact-checking

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Samikshya Siwakoti, Kamya Yadav, Nicola Bariletto, Luca Zanotti, Ulas Erdogdu, and Jacob N. Shapiro

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covid-19, fact-checking, social media, twitter, Information technology, T58.5-58.64, Communication. Mass media, P87-96
Abstract

With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic came a flood of novel misinformation. Ranging from harmless false cures to dangerous rhetoric targeting minorities, coronavirus-related misinformation spread quickly wherever the virus itself did. Fact-checking organizations around the world took up the charge against misinformation, essentially crowdsourcing the task of debunking false narratives. In many places, engagement with coronavirus-related content drove a large percentage of overall user engagement with fact-checking content, and the capacity organizations developed to address coronavirus-related misinformation was later deployed to debunk misinformation on other topics.

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2021
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2. Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?

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Jacob N. Shapiro, Ulas Erdogdu, Samikshya Siwakoti, Alicia Wanless, and Kamya Yadav

Subjects
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Work (electrical), Political science, media_common.quotation_subject, Law, Political Science and International Relations, Authoritarianism, Pandemic, Fake news, Misinformation, Democracy, media_common
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Since 2015, there has been a huge increase in laws that ostensibly seek to counter misinformation. Since the pandemic began, this trend has only accelerated. Both authoritarian and democratic gover...

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2021
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3. How COVID drove the evolution of fact-checking

Author

Nicola Bariletto, Kamya Yadav, Samikshya Siwakoti, Luca Zanotti, Ulas Erdogdu, and Jacob N. Shapiro

Subjects
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), social media, 05 social sciences, Fact checking, Communication. Mass media, 050801 communication & media studies, Information technology, Computer security, computer.software_genre, T58.5-58.64, P87-96, 0506 political science, fact-checking, 0508 media and communications, covid-19, 050602 political science & public administration, Social media, twitter, Psychology, computer
Abstract

With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic came a flood of novel misinformation. Ranging from harmless false cures to dangerous rhetoric targeting minorities, coronavirus-related misinformation spread quickly wherever the virus itself did. Fact-checking organizations around the world took up the charge against misinformation, essentially crowdsourcing the task of debunking false narratives. In many places, engagement with coronavirus-related content drove a large percentage of overall user engagement with fact-checking content, and the capacity organizations developed to address coronavirus-related misinformation was later deployed to debunk misinformation on other topics.

Published
2021

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