Full Description
This book is the first academic work to comprehensively examine fact-checking practices outside Western democracies, featuring exclusively Global South voices. Unlike existing literature dominated by Western perspectives, this volume provides insider knowledge from scholars and practitioners operating in challenging environments with limited resources, political instability, and restricted data access. The book introduces concepts like "checktainment" and explores AI deployment in non-Western contexts, revealing how fact-checkers adapt methodologies to local conditions. Written by Global South scholars and practitioners with direct experience, it fills a critical gap in understanding how misinformation is combated across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Volume 1 offers an overview of the fact-checking ecosystem in the Global South, pointing out the differences with Western democracies and considering the institutions behind fact-checking organizations, cooperative endeavours, and the deployment of emerging technologies in the industry.
Contents
Chapter 1 : Adopt or Adapt to the Context : How Regional Networks are Shaping Fact-Checking Principles in the Global South .- Chapter 2 : An Examination of Methodologies and Approaches Adopted by Fact-Checking Organizations in the Global South.- Chapter 3 : Affiliations of Fact-Checking Organizations in the Global South .- Chapter 4 : A Critical Political Economy of Fact-Checking Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa .- Chapter 5: Collaborative Perspectives on Fact-Checking in the Global South .- Chapter 6 : Scientific versus Political Fact-Checking .- Chapter 7 : Explainers, Platform Vernaculars and Checktainment: An Analysis of Facebook FactChecking Posts in the Global South .- Chapter 8 : The Entanglements between Fact-Checking and Data Journalism .- Chapter 9 : The Institutional Logics of Fact-checking outside WEIRD countries .- Chapter 10 : Encouraging Youth Participation in Fact-Checking Through GNI Verification Challenge in Indonesia .- Chapter 11 : Artificial Intelligence in the Fact-checking Industry of the Global South .- Chapter 12 : Conclusion.
