Contributors
Peter Burger: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draft
Soeradj Kanhai: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Alexander Pleijter: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Suzan Verberne:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9609-9505
Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Sabrina Gaito: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
1
August
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 8
Electronic Location Identifier: e0220446
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Journalism and New Media, Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL),
Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
[2
]
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden,
the Netherlands
Universitá degli Studi di Milano, ITALY
Author notes
Competing Interests: Two authors, PB and AP, received payments from Facebook for their services as a third-party
fact-checkers. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on
sharing data and materials.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-36537
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220446
PMC ID: 6675076
PubMed ID: 31369596
SO-VID: ce7b4bc3-81af-4e64-a6d5-330fa27f7d12
Copyright © © 2019 Burger et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 21
December
2018
Date
accepted
: 15
July
2019
Page count
Figures: 4,
Tables: 2,
Pages: 15
Funding
From March 2017 through January 2018 Leiden University’s Nieuwscheckers project, supervised
by authors PB and AP, received payments from Facebook for its services as a third-party
fact-checker, publishing fact-checks of Facebook posts that were reported by users
as potentially fake. The third-party fact-checkers have complete editorial independence,
warranted by their adherence to the principles of the International Fact- Checking
Network (IFCN). Burger and Pleijter did not receive payments from Facebook in order
to fund this study, nor did Facebook have any role in the study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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