Automated analysis reveals differences in truth claims across Austrian and Czech news media, indicating significant media influence on public discourse.
Key Points
This research analyzes how truthfulness and falsehood are portrayed in migration coverage by Austrian and Czech media. It investigates the role of media formats and political contexts in these dynamics.
Analyzed 162,943 news articles from 2013 to 2019 using automated content analysis.
Employed latent semantic scaling to distinguish between tabloid and broadsheet media as well as mainstream and alternative news.
Used named entity recognition to identify contributions from populist politicians and government officials.
Found significant differences in truth claims between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers.
Identified variations in mediated truth contestation related to political contexts in Austria and Czech Republic.
Demonstrated that media types influence the construction of truthfulness and falsehood in news articles.