The end of fact-checking as we knew it?

Change and challenge in a new global institution

Over the last 15 years, fact-checking has grown into an organized professional movement with remarkable global reach and relevance. Today, however, growth has levelled off, and the movement faces a host of internal challenges and external threats. This talk considers the institution-building formula that a diverse community of fact-checkers used to expand their movement to more than 100 countries – and how that formula has left this emerging democratic institution vulnerable to shifting stakeholder priorities in a climate of mounting resistance to anti-disinformation efforts.

Lucas Graves is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on new organizations and practices in the emerging news ecosystem, and more broadly on the challenges digital networks pose to established media and political institutions. He is the author of the book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism (Columbia University Press).

The lecture is arranged by the project Tell Me the Truth: Fact-checkers in an Age of Epistemic Instability, Carlsberg Foundation. Everyone is welcome!

No registration is needed.

For questions, please contact Mette Bengtsson