Jornalismo e fact-checking: fontes oficiais na base da checagem e critérios não explicitados na seleção doque checar orientam a análise de aos fatos e agência

Abstract

The practice of fact-checking began to verify the factuality of the information in the speeches of political agents (GRAVES, 2013). But the proliferation of false information on Internet social networks, and dissemination of lies as a political instrument, made the fact-checking methodologies also used to combat fake news (DINIZ, 2018). Taking into account a cognitive and behavioral approach, Lazer et al (2018) warn that there are doubts as to the effectiveness of this use. This article analyzes the performance of two Brazilian agencies of checking, Aos Fatos and Agência Lupa. We demonstrate that, although discourse checking has a direct bearing on the credibility of organizations, the agencies themselves do not spell out the criteria that guide the selection of what is checked. And that in this mode of verification, fact-checking platforms rely mainly on data and studies provided byofficial sources and public institutions, once again compromising the credibility of the process.