2 papers
cs.SI2026
Stop using Media Bias/Fact Check in research
Alejandro Javier Ruiz Iglesias, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Ashley M. A. Fehr +2
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) purports to quantify the bias, credibility, and factuality of reporting for roughly 10,000 media sources, and the resulting data is commonly used in mi…
cs.SI2026
False memories to fake news: The evolution of the term "misinformation" in academic literature
Alejandro Javier Ruiz Iglesias, Danny Benett, Julia Witte Zimmerman +2
Since 2016, the term "misinformation" has become associated with a scientific paradigm that studies, at its core, people making, reading, and sharing false statements, usually on s…