Cross-checking journalistic fact-checkers: The role of sampling and scaling in interpreting false and misleading statements

• David M. Markowitz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dmm@msu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7159-7014

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• Timothy R. Levine,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Communication Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Kim B. Serota,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Management and Marketing, School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Oakland, MI, United States of America

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• Alivia D. Moore

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

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