Purpose To elaborate the nature of fact-checking in the domain of political information by examining how fact … content analysis of 128 reports written by the fact-checkers of Snopes – an established fact-checking organisation – during … positive ratings was 26.7%. The share of mixed assessments was 15.6%. In the fact-checking, two evaluation grounds, that is …

We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements …. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking … company. Our results show that politicians are responsive to negative fact-checking. Specifically, we observe a significative …

We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements …. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking … company. Our results show that politicians are responsive to negative fact-checking. Specifically, we observe a significative …

about their personal susceptibility to fall for fake news causally increases their willingness to pay for the fact-checking …