%0 Journal Article
%T Fake News Debunking and Counteractions ¨C the Bulgarian Experience
%A Miteva
%A Nadezhda
%J 21st Century Media and Communications
%D 2018
%X Careful and thorough fact-checking is a main tool for counteracting fake news, alternative facts and the context created in the Post-Truth Era. This paper examines the contemporary fact-checking mechanisms in the Bulgarian media environment. The methods applied are data analysis, interviews with proffessional journalists, a survey among media content users, and a case study. The research ws cnducted within the framework of the DCOST Project 01/10 ¨C 04.07.2017 (project leader Prof. Lilia Raycheva), supported by the National Scientific Fund of Bulgaria, and developed within the Europpean Commissionˇ®s Action IS 1404: Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitization (E-READ)
%K fact-checking^ verification^ fake news^ alternative facts.
%U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/mc/eng/vol2/iss1/8