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Abstract

This chapter explores the institutional focus of fact-checking organizations based in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) countries, leveraging insights from semi-structured interviews with 37 fact-checking experts from 35 organizations in 27 countries. We identified three primary logics guiding non-WEIRD factcheckers: 1) a journalistic logic, prominently observed in Latin America; 2) a securitization logic, prevalent in post-Soviet countries and present in East Asia and the MENA region; 3) a communitarian logic, most noticeable in South and Southeast Asia, in addition to SubSaharan Africa. Although the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) regulates factchecking standards, we argue that expanding these standards to local contexts involves a translation process that meaningfully changes the work and the rationale of fact-checking.

Publication Type:	Book Section
Publisher Keywords:	fact-checking, non-WEIRD, institutional logics, IFCN, information disorder
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Departments:	School of Communication & Creativity School of Communication & Creativity > Department of Media, Culture & Creative Industries
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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