RT Journal Article
T1 Redrawing the Lines Against Disinformation: How AI Is Shaping the Present and Future of Fact-checking
A1 Gutiérrez Caneda, Beatriz
A1 Vázquez Herrero, Jorge
K1 Fact-checking
K1 Artificial intelligence
K1 Hi-tech journalism
K1 Disinformation
AB Artificial intelligence is changing the way our world works, and the journalism and communication field is no exception. The development of high technologies such as NLP or machine learning has modified professional routines, work profiles, and business models. Fact-checking initiatives, which have long battled disinformation, now face a complex context where misleading content grows faster than ever. In this situation, artificial intelligence, or AI, can be a double-edged sword. On the one side, AI-generated content can be created faster than regular content; therefore, there is a huge volume of data to be analysed by fact-checkers. Furthermore, NLP software is not always as reliable as it might be expected. It tends to ‘hallucinate’, creating more misleading content and hoaxes. On the other hand, AI can be a helpful tool in fighting disinformation. This paper analyses 10 independent international fact-checking initiatives through case analysis and questionnaires with fact-checkers. Results show that these sites use AI during different stages of their routines, accelerating processes, simplifying tasks and improving the accuracy of fact-checking results. AI integration shows some risks related to economic restrictions, platform limitations, media distrust, and inequity between countries. To conclude, this research also demonstrates that journalists are still in the loop about fact-checking sites, but more tech profiles and better skills are required
PB Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39785
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39785
LA eng
NO Gutiérrez-Caneda, B., & Vázquez-Herrero, J. (2024). Redrawing the Lines Against Disinformation: How AI Is Shaping the Present and Future of Fact-checking. Tripodos, (55), 55–74. https://doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2024.55.04
NO This article is part of the R&D project Digital-native media in Spain: Strategies, competencies, social involvement and (re)definition of practices in journalistic production and diffusion (PID2021-122534OB-C21), funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF/EU” and within the activities of IBERIFIER, funded by the European Commission (call CEF-TC-2020–2; European Digital Media Observatory) under grant 2020-EU-IA-0252.  The author Beatriz Gutiérrez-Caneda is beneficiary of a predoctoral contract funded by Axudas de apoio á etapa predoutoral 2022 GAIN of the Xunta de Galicia, with file number ED481A 2022/209
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026