Combating fake news online: Turkish fact-checking services
Research Anthology on Fake News, Political Warfare, and Combatting the Spread of Misinformation, IGI Global, ss.466-482, 2020
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2020
- Doi Numarası: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7291-7.ch027
- Yayınevi: IGI Global
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.466-482
- Kırklareli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In today's post-truth environment, besides the increase in political polarization, the rapid spread of fake news infringes on society. In the struggle with fake news, fact-checking services have begun to play an important role. The aim of this chapter is to highlight how fact-checking services work, what their strategies and limitations are, their interaction with users, and the digital tools they use in such interactions. Thus, the platforms Teyit.org (Confirmation) and Doğruluk Payi (Share of Truth) that operate in Turkey have been chosen as exemplary cases. In the study, the content analysis and the in-depth interview methodological approaches have been used together. As a conclusion, it has been revealed that these aforementionedfact-checking services increase their activities during election times, adopt the principles of political impartiality and economic transparency, use the practices of data journalism, interact with users, and try to create a digital literacy ecosystem as an ultimate goal.