Fact-Checking in the Global South, Volume 1

This book is the first academic work to comprehensively examine fact-checking practices outside Western democracies, featuring exclusively Global South voices. Unlike existing literature dominated by Western perspectives, this volume provides insider knowledge from scholars and practitioners operating in challenging environments with limited resources, political instability, and restricted data access. The book introduces concepts like "checktainment" and explores AI deployment in non-Western contexts, revealing how fact-checkers adapt methodologies to local conditions. Written by Global South scholars and practitioners with direct experience, it fills a critical gap in understanding how misinformation is combated across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Volume 1 offers an overview of the fact-checking ecosystem in the Global South, pointing out the differences with Western democracies and considering the institutions behind fact-checking organizations, cooperative endeavours, and the deployment of emerging technologies in the industry. 

List of contents

Chapter 1 : Adopt or Adapt to the Context : How Regional Networks are Shaping Fact-Checking Principles in the Global South .- Chapter 2 : An Examination of Methodologies and Approaches Adopted by Fact-Checking Organizations in the Global South.-  Chapter 3 : Affiliations of Fact-Checking Organizations in the Global South .- Chapter 4 : A Critical Political Economy of Fact-Checking Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa .- Chapter 5: Collaborative Perspectives on Fact-Checking in the Global South .- Chapter 6 : Scientific versus Political Fact-Checking .- Chapter 7 : Explainers, Platform Vernaculars and Checktainment: An Analysis of Facebook FactChecking Posts in the Global South .- Chapter 8 : The Entanglements between Fact-Checking and Data Journalism .- Chapter 9 : The Institutional Logics of Fact-checking outside WEIRD countries .- Chapter 10 : Encouraging Youth Participation in Fact-Checking Through GNI Verification Challenge in Indonesia .- Chapter 11 : Artificial Intelligence in the Fact-checking Industry of the Global South .- Chapter 12 : Conclusion.

About the author

Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos 
(PhD) is a Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor) at Macquarie University. He is also a research associate in the Digital Media and Society Observatory (DMSO) at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Human(e) AI project at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and a researcher at the University of Navarra, Spain, under the JOLT project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Mathias-Felipe is co-editor of the book “Journalism, Data and Technology in Latin America.” Mathias-Felipe is currently part of the editorial board of Digital Journalism. His research interests include the changing nature of communications driven by technological innovations, particularly in journalism, media, and online social networks.

Arwa Kooli 
(PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Press and Information Sciences (IPSI) Tunisia, she used to be the editor-in-chief of the fact-checking platform Tunifact. She taught different classes at IPSI including data journalism, fact-checking and the Intercultural Communication Transnational Classroom which is the result of collaboration between the IPSI and the School of Communication Studies (SCS) at Kent State University, Ohio, U.S.A., in addition to other courses. She participated in and coordinated different projects in which IPSI collaborated with other universities around the world. She has conducted research on fact-checking, social media, journalism education, journalism, and communication. She is also a data journalism and fact-checking trainer.

Summary

This book is the first academic work to comprehensively examine fact-checking practices outside Western democracies, featuring exclusively Global South voices. Unlike existing literature dominated by Western perspectives, this volume provides insider knowledge from scholars and practitioners operating in challenging environments with limited resources, political instability, and restricted data access. The book introduces concepts like "checktainment" and explores AI deployment in non-Western contexts, revealing how fact-checkers adapt methodologies to local conditions. Written by Global South scholars and practitioners with direct experience, it fills a critical gap in understanding how misinformation is combated across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Volume 1 offers an overview of the fact-checking ecosystem in the Global South, pointing out the differences with Western democracies and considering the institutions behind fact-checking organizations, cooperative endeavours, and the deployment of emerging technologies in the industry. 

Product details

• Assisted by: Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos (Editor), Kooli (Editor), Arwa Kooli (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.04.2026
• EAN: 9783032075307
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3207530-7
• Illustrations: Approx. 220 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Kommunikationswissenschaft, Medienwissenschaften, Latin America, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, Asia, Africa, Data, Journalism, disinformation, Political Communication, Health Communication, Fact-Checking