A blog about data & misinformation
By Loes Martens
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Methodological report: our fact-checking approach
The first step of our fact-checking approach was to select an appropriate number of tweets from the Pointer database. Among others, this database included tweets coming from public broadcasters as well as tweets coming from commercial broadcasters. We selected all tweets coming from the following public broadcasters: Nieuwsuur, EenVandaag, NPO Radio 1, Op1, NOS Sport, NOS,…
Does longing for financial gain affect the factual accuracy of commercial broadcasting organizations?
We would expect official institutions such as public or national broadcasting companies to have our best interests in mind. After all, we, the people, need to be well-informed so that our countries’ democracies can flourish. But this does spark the question of whether the largest public broadcasters really are the ones to be trusted the…
Misleading graphs in a climate matter
It’s challenging to make people aware of climate change, as the problem might be complex and only a few people will directly experience the consequences (Schäfer, 2012). Smith and Joffe (2009) researched the role of visualizations of the impact of climate change in the British press. They found that a graphical representation of climate change…
Who should be the judge?
Social media as news source Social media apps generate a place for public discussion and discourse on cultural and political events (Caplan & Boyd, 2016). However, a lot of disinformation appears on these platforms, as social media lacks gatekeepers with the responsibility to check content for possible incorrectness or misleading information (Barkun, 2016). Therefore, social media should not always…
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