FACT-CHECKING MEDIA

Abstract

The media has long been considered as one of the pillars of democracy, because it has a first-rate significance in informing and engaging the citizens, however the most important problems are being supplied inside the exceptional of the information this is published, and the misinformation of the citizens. In recent years, the spread of misinformation on social media, including patently false political “fake news”, misleading hyper-partisan news, and other forms of inaccurate content, has become a major source of social concern and academic research. The use of professional fact-checkers to identify and label false or misleading claims is one of the most prominent approaches to combating disinformation that technology companies are currently using and has received considerable attention in academia. However, these methods cannot keep us with the huge amount of content that is posted daily on social media. In this paper, we discuss the current state-of-art methods for detecting fake news, the need for fact-checking systems, and the potential impact of these methods on the resilience of disinformation in Albania.