Independent fact-checking organisations play a crucial role in combating misinformation. Nevertheless, Meta and X have scaled back their collaboration with fact-checking organisations, leading to financial strain to the fact-checking industry and increasing misinformation risks. We discuss alternative approaches, such as crowdsourced and AI-driven fact-checking, highlighting their significant limitations. They lack the investigative skills, critical thinking and independence that professional fact-checkers provide. We examine the extent to which public intervention may be necessary to sustain fact-checking initiatives and address misinformation challenges.
BLASCO Andrea;
SOBBRIO Francesco;
2025-07-25
European Commission
JRC141580
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC141580,
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