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The epistemic status of reproducibility in political fact-checking

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2024-02-24
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional
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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 argue that achieving reproducible fact-checking may not help much in rendering politicians accountable. Political fact-checkers do not deliver either reproducibility or accountability today, and there are reasons to think that traditional quality journalism may serve liberal democracies better.
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fact-checking, truth scores, reproducibility, accountability
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filosofía
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Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
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