The Epistemology of Fact Checking
By J. Uscinski, Ryden W. Butler. 2013
Subfields: AI Ethics, Fairness & Society, Philosophy
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- ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification (2021, background): “Justifying decisions is central to fact verification (Uscinski and Butler, 2013).”
- Correcting Political and Consumer Misperceptions: The Effectiveness and Effects of Rating Scale Versus Contextual Correction Formats (2018, unknown): “However, other fact-checkers have questioned the use of “inflexible ratings systems” (Jackson, 2012; see also Kessler, 2014) which seem to promise scientific precision, a critique echoed by scholars and media critics (e.g. Uscinski & Butler, 2013; Hemingway, 2011).”
- FEVEROUS: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information (2021, background): “Retrieving relevant evidence is an important requirement, given that it provides a basic justification for the label, which is essential to convince the users of the capabilities of a verification system and to assess its correctness [Uscinski and Butler, 2013, Lipton, 2016, Kotonya and Toni, 2020a].”
- Knowledge Conflicts for LLMs: A Survey (2024, unknown): “Conflicting information can stem from misinformation, outdated facts, or partially correct data (Uscinski and Butler, 2013; Guo et al., 2022).”
- Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework (2018, background): “Researchers have also brought to light that professionalism as seen in, for example, fact-checking is threatened because it is demanding and complex (Compton and Benedetti, 2010; Uscinski and Butler, 2013).”
- Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation (2016, background): “In reality, many corrections go unread, and even when they are issued, many political claims can be difficult to decisively falsify (Uscinski & Butler, 2013).”
- Who Uses Fact-Checking Sites? The Impact of Demographics, Political Antecedents, and Media Use on Fact-Checking Site Awareness, Attitudes, and Behavior (2020, background): “However, the fact-checking movement is not without its detractors, with criticism coming from both the academy (Uscinski and Butler 2013) and the public (Brandtzaeg et al. 2018).”