Fact-checking in the university: The experience of the ‘Verificatón Electoral’ as a model of teaching innovation
Irene Larraz; Samuel Toledano; Jordi Rodríguez-Virgili; Félix Arias Robles; Ángeles Durán; Marta Pérez-Escolar; Rocío Zamora Medina; Rubén Ramos Antón; Óscar Espíritusanto Nicolás; Miguel Ángel Esteban Navarro; Marcos Bermejo Gil · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This article analyzes the experience of Verificatón, a teaching innovation project based on a live fact-checking hackathon aimed at identifying and combating disinformation in the electoral context. The initiative, developed by the fact-checking media outlet Newtral in collaboration with nine Spanish universities, brought together a hundred journalism studen…