This type of approach revolves around fact-checking the claims made in the news article. Fact-checking can be performed by domain experts, through crowdsourcing, and by knowledge graphs.

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This approach focuses on the features of the news, as well as the actual source of the news. There are two ways in which one can adopt the news content approach: the knowledge-based approach and the style-based approach.

News Content Approach to Verifying the Truthfulness of News

Ackland, R., & Gwynn, K. (2020). Truth and the dynamics of news diffusion on twitter. In R. Greifeneder, M. Jaffé, E. J. Newman, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation (pp. 27–46). London: Routledge. 

Truth and the dynamics of news diffusion on twitter

This type of approach focuses on the actual features of the text of the news article, such as lexical and syntactical features, as well as images, the presence of tables and graphs, and external links.

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