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Silje Susanne Alvestad
Professional and community-based fact-checking show different strengths, but neither performs strongly across trust, scalability, and impact
Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Silje Susanne Alvestad, Jonas R. Kunst and Asbjørn Følstad
Fact-checking on social media matters more than ever. When Meta abandoned professional fact checkers in 2025 in favour of crowd-sourced annotations, it bet that community participation could substitute for institutional expertise. Our systematic review of 21 empirical studies of social media fact-checking (2022–2025) suggests the picture is more complicated than it appears.