Data journalism and misinformation

Westlund, Oscar; Hermida, Alfred

doi:10.4324/9781003004431-16

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“…In our measures, we used the term misinformation in very general terms, also including purposefully misleading disinformation (Krause et al, 2020; Scheufele & Krause, 2019). It could be that the difference between misinformation, which some define as false without intent to mislead, and disinformation, which some define as intentionally false (Westlund & Hermida, 2021), matters when explaining policy attitudes. Perhaps regulations fighting disinformation find more public approval as compared to regulations against the spread of mistakes that were not intended.…”

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Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount

2023

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Responding to harmful content on social media, calls for regulations are coming up to break down the black boxes of social media platforms in handling misinformation. Examples are requiring cooperations with fact‐checkers or the government stepping in. So far, there is a lack of knowledge about predictors of policy attitudes in the context of misinformation besides attitudes toward and perceptions of censorship. Using a two‐wave panel study in Germany at the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic and eight months in, we examine the role of perceived misinformation exposure, perceived harm of misinformation, and trust in institutions involved in regulating misinformation on public support for misinformation regulation. Results show that trust in media and democracy increase policy support over time. Furthermore, perceived exposure to misinformation does not influence policy attitudes, but perceived harm of misinformation does. We discuss implications for regulating misinformation in the light of our findings.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount

2023

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“…Así dispuestos, los datos se convierten en un instrumento de primera magnitud para desactivar bulos. No obstante, sería ingenuo obviar que la datificación de la sociedad está sujeta a factores estructurales, ideológicos y culturales que condicionan qué datos son accesibles, cómo se procesan e incluso de qué forma son presentados al público (Westlund;Hermida, 2021).…”

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Capítulo 4. La cultura de la verificación periodística frente a la desinformación digital y sus efectos polarizadores

Pérez-Díaz¹

2023

Espejo de Monografías

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Este capítulo ofrece una reflexión epistemológica en torno al deterioro de las nociones de verdad y objetividad como fundamento de la autoridad institucional del periodismo, a partir de la cual se caracteriza el auge de la cultura de la verificación periodística como una de las enmiendas más sólidas al daño que la desinformación digital inflige en el debate público de las sociedades democráticas. Frente a los desórdenes informativos contemporáneos, esta vertiente de la especialización profesional despliega medidas correctivas y pedagógicas que sirven de complemento a las prudentes iniciativas regulatorias impulsadas por gobiernos y a las perfectibles soluciones tecnológicas que implantan las grandes corporaciones digitales. Así, el presente trabajo articula diversas contranarrativas de la verdad con las que el periodismo combate la desinformación: desde el empleo de un gatekeeping reflexivo a la construcción de agendas ponderadas y la realización de meticulosas comprobaciones, siempre apoyadas en la información contextual, el uso estratégico del lenguaje, el manejo preciso de los datos y la eficacia de las rectificaciones. En última instancia, se profundiza en los límites del fact-checking en un escenario de polarización afectiva marcado por el aislamiento intelectual que propiciaría el consumo de información online y los divisivos discursos propios del populismo. Las conclusiones alcanzadas invitan a comprender el periodismo de verificación como una fórmula esencial —aunque no siempre suficiente— para sanear el ecosistema informativo a través de un marco de prácticas periodísticas genuinas que contribuyen a perfeccionar el proceso de producción de informaciones, fortalecer la rendición de cuentas pública y estimular la capacidad crítica de la ciudadanía. Palabras clave: desinformación, objetividad, polarización, verificación, fact-checking, populismo.

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“…News sources are increasingly reporting data to consumers (Westlund & Hermida, 2021), with data journalists often presenting their findings as fact. However, they less often acknowledge limitations such as data-collection practices or conflicts of interest in their work.…”

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Can Invalid Information Be Ignored When It Is Detected?

Ramsey,

Liu,

Trueblood

2024

Psychol Sci

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With the rapid spread of information via social media, individuals are prone to misinformation exposure that they may utilize when forming beliefs. Over five experiments (total N = 815 adults, recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk in the United States), we investigated whether people could ignore quantitative information when they judged for themselves that it was misreported. Participants recruited online viewed sets of values sampled from Gaussian distributions to estimate the underlying means. They attempted to ignore invalid information, which were outlier values inserted into the value sequences. Results indicated participants were able to detect outliers. Nevertheless, participants’ estimates were still biased in the direction of the outlier, even when they were most certain that they detected invalid information. The addition of visual warning cues and different task scenarios did not fully eliminate systematic over- and underestimation. These findings suggest that individuals may incorporate invalid information they meant to ignore when forming beliefs.

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Data journalism and misinformation

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount

Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount

Capítulo 4. La cultura de la verificación periodística frente a la desinformación digital y sus efectos polarizadores

Can Invalid Information Be Ignored When It Is Detected?

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