Code for the Digital Journalism paper: 'Digital Infrastructures of COVID-19 Misinformation: A New Conceptual and Analytical Perspective on Fact-Checking'. In the paper we compare two fact-checking databases (Poynter institute and Google Fact-check explorer) as overarching infrastructures of fact-checking.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| BERT_poynter_googlefc_claim_overlap_github.py | Compares the claim titles from the two databases using sentence embedding (BERT) to find overlapping claims |
| BERT_poynter_googlefc_TopicModel_github.py | Automated topic model using BERT to map the topics occuring in the fact-checked stories for both databases |