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How COVID drove the evolution of fact-checking

Published:2021-05-06 Issue: Volume: Page:
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Container-title:Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
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Short-container-title:HKS Misinfo Review

Author:

Siwakoti Samikshya¹,Yadav Kamya¹,Bariletto Nicola²,Zanotti Luca²,Erdoğdu Ulaş³,Shapiro Jacob N.⁴

Affiliation:

1. ESOC Lab, Princeton University, USA

2. Department of Economics, Bocconi University, Italy

3. Department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

4. Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA

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.

Funder

Microsoft Research

Publisher

Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

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