Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as
Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12841v3
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:01:13 GMT
- Title: Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as
Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users
- Authors: Md Mahfuzul Haque, Mohammad Yousuf, Ahmed Shatil Alam, Pratyasha Saha,
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Naeemul Hassan
- Abstract summary: The spread of misinformation on Facebook in Bangladesh has resulted in chaos, hate attacks, and killings.
Our findings show that most people in the news audience' want the news media to verify the authenticity of online information.
We suggest several pathways to increase the impact of fact-checking efforts through collaboration, technology design, and infrastructure development.
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- License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
- Abstract: There has been a growing interest within CSCW community in understanding the
characteristics of misinformation propagated through computational media, and
the devising techniques to address the associated challenges. However, most
work in this area has been concentrated on the cases in the western world
leaving a major portion of this problem unaddressed that is situated in the
Global South. This paper aims to broaden the scope of this discourse by
focusing on this problem in the context of Bangladesh, a country in the Global
South. The spread of misinformation on Facebook in Bangladesh, a country with a
population over 163 million, has resulted in chaos, hate attacks, and killings.
By interviewing journalists, fact-checkers, in addition to surveying the
general public, we analyzed the current state of verifying misinformation in
Bangladesh. Our findings show that most people in the `news audience' want the
news media to verify the authenticity of online information that they see
online. However, the newspaper journalists say that fact-checking online
information is not a part of their job, and it is also beyond their capacity
given the amount of information being published online everyday. We further
find that the voluntary fact-checkers in Bangladesh are not equipped with
sufficient infrastructural support to fill in this gap. We show how our
findings are connected to some of the core concerns of CSCW community around
social media, collaboration, infrastructural politics, and information
inequality. From our analysis, we also suggest several pathways to increase the
impact of fact-checking efforts through collaboration, technology design, and
infrastructure development.
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