ABSTRACT

This article claims that the practices undertaken by digital platforms to counter disinformation, under the EU Action Plan against Disinformation and the Code of Practice, mark a shift in the governance of news media content. While professional journalism standards have been used for long, both within and outside the industry, to assess the accuracy of news content and adjudicate on media conduct, the platforms are now resolving to different fact-checking routines to moderate and curate their content. The article will demonstrate how fact-checking organisations have different working methods than news operators and ultimately understand and assess ‘accuracy’ in different ways. As a result, this new and enhanced role for platforms and fact-checkers as curators of content impacts on how content is distributed to the audience and, thus, on media freedom. Depending on how the fact-checking standards and working routines will consolidate in the near future, however, this trend offers an actual opportunity to improve the quality of news and the right to receive information.

摘要

本文声称，根据欧盟反虚假信息行动计划和《行为准则》，数字平台针对反虚假信息采取的做法标志着新闻媒体内容治理的转变。尽管行业内外长期以来一直使用专业新闻标准来评估新闻内容的准确性并裁定媒体行为，但该平台现在正在解决不同的事实检查程序，以调节和策划其内容。本文将演示事实检查组织与新闻运营商如何具有不同的工作方法，并最终以不同的方式理解和评估“准确性”。因此，平台和事实检查者作为内容管理者的这种新的增强角色会影响内容向受众的分发方式，从而影响 关于媒体自由。但是，取决于在不久的将来将如何合并事实检查标准和工作例程，这种趋势为提高新闻质量和获得信息的权利提供了实际机会。