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Balancing Artificial Intelligence and Human Expertise: Ideal Fact-Checking Strategies for Hard and Soft News

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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Abstract

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 103, Issue 1, Page 134-160, March 2026.
This study compares the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI)-aided versus human-assisted fact-checking for different types of news, namely hard and soft news. To this end, an online experiment was carried out separately in Korea and the United ...