Here are some sources that were not cited in the explainer, but may provide useful further insights:
Bruns, A., Harrington, S., & Hurcombe, E. (2020). ‘Corona? 5G? or both?’: the dynamics of COVID-19/5G conspiracy theories on Facebook. Media International Australia, 177(1), 12–29.
Bruns, A., Hurcombe, E., & Harrington, S. (2022). Covering conspiracy: Approaches to reporting the COVID/5G conspiracy theory. Digital Journalism, 10(6), 930–951.
Hapgood. (2025). About Mike Caulfield – creator of SIFT methodology.
Harrington, S., Bruns, A., Matich, P., Angus, D., Hurcombe, E., & Jude, N. (2024). ‘Big Lies’: Understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation. Media International Australia, 1329878X241291317.
Montaña-Niño, S., Vziatysheva, V., Dehghan, E., Badola, A., Zhu, G., Vinhas, O., Riedlinger, M., & Glazunova, S. (2024). Fact-checkers on the fringe: Investigating methods and practices associated with contested areas of fact-checking. Media and Communication, 12.
Riedlinger, M., Watt, N., & Montaña-Niño, S. (2025, January 8). Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation. The Conversation.
Riedlinger, N. W., Michelle. (2025, March 25). Why voting in a fact-checking void should worry you. Crikey.
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