How can we understand the relationship between Fact-Checkers and big techs?
Lucas Graves, disinformation and fact-checking expert and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about the relationship between Fact-Checkers and the big technology companies. Meta has announced that the company will close the third-party program, un alliance with Fact-Checkers, in the United States. Zuckerberg declared that they attempt against free-speech. Graves assures that the collaboration between Fact-Checkers and big techs “is not a perfect partnerships”. He adds that when Fact-Checkers label something as false or decontextualized, “the circulation reduces”. So Fact-Checkers “appreciate ho have an immediate impact on the disinformation that they try so hard to fight”. Lucas Graves is the author of Deciding What’s True. The rise of political fact-checking in American Journalism, and he was a keynote speaker at the summit “Desmontando la desinformación”, organized by Learn to Check and Fundación Telefónica on 6th June 2024 in Madrid.
