TY - JOUR AU - Baptista, Joí£o-Pedro AU - Jerónimo, Pedro AU - Piñeiro-Naval, Valeriano AU - Gradim, Anabela PY - 2022/11/16 Y2 - 2024/07/14 TI - Elections and fact-checking in Portugal: the case of the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections JF - Profesional de la información JA - EPI VL - 31 IS - 6 SE - Artí­culos de investigación / Research articles DO - 10.3145/epi.2022.nov.11 UR - https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87041 SP - AB - <p class="p1">Fact-checking is a relatively recent journalistic genre in Portugal that has been growing in recent years, alternately viewed as a journalism reform movement or criticized as inefficient and idealistic. Our study is a comparative analysis of the output of the Portuguese fact-checkers <em>Observador</em> and <em>Polí­grafo</em> in the 2019-2022 elections to determine whether their coverage is politically biased. Performing a quantitative content analysis of all fact-checking articles on national politics (<em>n</em> = 265) published during the campaign for the parliamentary elections, our results show that fact-checking activity has increased in the last elections. These data may indicate that fact-checking agencies have increased their capacity and resources, but may also suggest a greater presence of subjectivity and deception in Portuguese political discourse. The focus of Portuguese fact-checkers is statements produced during political debates (70%), while social media verification is disregarded. Our most significant finding is the lack of evidence of partisan or political bias in the selection of the assessed statements. Both fact-checkers do not show a tendency to check statements that are more or less anti- or pro-government and/or statements that are ideologically favorable to the left wing or the right wing. Therefore, our findings confirm the high level of professionalism and impartiality of Portuguese fact-checkers evidenced in other studies, and demonstrate that the Portuguese citizen´s skepticism toward the practice has no foundation.</p> ER -
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