> Google’s reverse image search to identify images that had been previously fact checked by journalists, and hand coding to mark an image as misleading if it “promotes unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, spreads elements of known political disinformation campaigns, makes claims that are demonstrably false, or places facts in a misleading context.”
The "fact checkers" have done such a poor job that at this rate I don't know anyone, liberal or conservative, who trusts them. We literally have fact checkers disputing direct quotes.
I don't believe humans are capable of this kind of analysis.
Overall, 23% of political image posts in our data were misleading. So were 20% of images containing political figures. Consistent with previous work, misinformation was very lopsided by partisanship. Right-leaning posts were 5-8 times as likely to be misleading. https://twitter.com/...
The "fact checkers" have done such a poor job that at this rate I don't know anyone, liberal or conservative, who trusts them. We literally have fact checkers disputing direct quotes.
I don't believe humans are capable of this kind of analysis.