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Fact-Checking In The Digital Era: A Multi-Case Study Of How Newsrooms Address Disinformation During Breaking News, Mary Nyambura Kulundu Ms

Theses & Dissertations

The role of the media is to inform its audience. This entails the supply of truthful and credible information. However, the traditional practices of ascertaining the truthfulness of news sources are now threatened by the rise of social media as a news source. The complexity arises from the fact that social media platforms lack an established means of confirming the credibility of both the source and the information. More so, the established procedures are randomly ignored in the event of breaking news, a time when the newsroom is time-bound and faces the highest risk of misinformation and disinformation. Subsequently, there …