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Moderating with the Mob: Evaluating the Efficacy of Real-Time Crowdsourced Fact-Checking
2021
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
Reducing the spread of false news remains a challenge for social media platforms, as the current strategy of using third-party fact- checkers lacks the capacity to address both the scale and speed of misinformation diffusion. Research on the "wisdom of the crowds" suggests one possible solution: aggregating the evaluations of ordinary users to assess the veracity of information. In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of a scalable model for real-time crowdsourced fact-checking. We
doi:10.54501/jots.v1i1.15
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