A Structured Analysis of Journalistic Evaluations for News Source Reliability

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Auteurs principaux: Pratelli, Manuel, Petrocchi, Marinella
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author Pratelli, Manuel
Petrocchi, Marinella
author_facet Pratelli, Manuel
Petrocchi, Marinella
contents In today's era of information disorder, many organizations are moving to verify the veracity of news published on the web and social media. In particular, some agencies are exploring the world of online media and, through a largely manual process, ranking the credibility and transparency of news sources around the world. In this paper, we evaluate two procedures for assessing the risk of online media exposing their readers to m/disinformation. The procedures have been dictated by NewsGuard and The Global Disinformation Index, two well-known organizations combating d/misinformation via practices of good journalism. Specifically, considering a fixed set of media outlets, we examine how many of them were rated equally by the two procedures, and which aspects led to disagreement in the assessment. The result of our analysis shows a good degree of agreement, which in our opinion has a double value: it fortifies the correctness of the procedures and lays the groundwork for their automation.
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spellingShingle A Structured Analysis of Journalistic Evaluations for News Source Reliability
Pratelli, Manuel
Petrocchi, Marinella
Computers and Society
Information Retrieval
Social and Information Networks
In today's era of information disorder, many organizations are moving to verify the veracity of news published on the web and social media. In particular, some agencies are exploring the world of online media and, through a largely manual process, ranking the credibility and transparency of news sources around the world. In this paper, we evaluate two procedures for assessing the risk of online media exposing their readers to m/disinformation. The procedures have been dictated by NewsGuard and The Global Disinformation Index, two well-known organizations combating d/misinformation via practices of good journalism. Specifically, considering a fixed set of media outlets, we examine how many of them were rated equally by the two procedures, and which aspects led to disagreement in the assessment. The result of our analysis shows a good degree of agreement, which in our opinion has a double value: it fortifies the correctness of the procedures and lays the groundwork for their automation.
title A Structured Analysis of Journalistic Evaluations for News Source Reliability
topic Computers and Society
Information Retrieval
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02736