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15The epistemic status of reproducibility in political fact-checkingEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (1): 1-18. 2024.Fact-checking agencies assess and score the truthfulness of politicians’ claims to foster their electoral accountability. Fact-checking is sometimes presented as a quasi-scientific activity, based on reproducible verification protocols that would guarantee an unbiased assessment. We will study these verification protocols and discuss under which conditions fact-checking could achieve effective reproducibility. Through an analysis of the methodological norms in verification protocols, we will arg…Read more
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322Can We Detect Bias in Political Fact-Checking? Evidence from a Spanish Case StudyJournalism Practice 10. 2023.Political fact-checkers evaluate the truthfulness of politicians’ claims. This paper contributes to an emerging scholarly debate on whether fact-checkers treat political parties differently in a systematic manner depending on their ideology (bias). We first examine the available approaches to analyze bias and then present a new approach in two steps. First, we propose a logistic regression model to analyze the outcomes of fact-checks and calculate how likely each political party will obtain a tr…Read more
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Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaLogic, History and Philosophy of SciencePredoctoral Fellow
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain