Checking the Fact-Checkers

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.

• Introduction1. A study of the causes and generation mechanisms of international fake news: A Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis2. Notes on Truth-seeking Conceptions and Fact-checking Practices in the Chinese News System3. Expanding Repertoires: The Emerging Fact-Checking Traditions in the 2022 Philippines Election4. Contextualizing Institutional Roots, Normative Perceptions, and Practices of Fact-Checking: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Fact-Checking Initiatives5. ‘Biased facts’: exploring fact-checking and ideological contestation in India6. Mapping the Boundaries of Fact-checking: Concrete vs. Arbitrary Criteria for Misinformation Selection7. Towards an Integrative Model for the Automated Detection of Fake News8. Propagation Structure Learning for Misinformation Detection9. COVID-19 Fake News Detection on Cantonese Social Media: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning-based Methods10. Selective citations in fact-checking: Proposing an analytical approach11. Natural Disasters Meet Rumours on Social Media: Do Spatiotemporal and Emotion Proximity Matter for Spread and Correction?12. Fact-checking, Belief Accuracy and Media Trust: A Research Synthesis13. The Promises and Pitfalls of Growing Public Participation in Fact-checking: Technical and Cultural Factors in East Asian Societies14. Fact-checking by the people? Report-based ‘rumour-refuting’ on Chinese social media and media populism*15. A remedy for epistemic pollution? Public and professional reactions to fact-checking with Wikipedia in Australian classrooms16. EUfactcheck.eu student project: the network, the platform, the tools17. On the democratic role of fact checking. A reflective essay18. Fact-checking political narratives19. Conspiracy Theories, Their Critical Value, and the Limits of Factchecking: Climate Change Documentaries20. From fact-checking to debunking: the French experience in the fight against disinformationIndex