Fact-Checking: Institutions, Practices, Publics, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781041060673)

Oscar Westlund (PhD) is a Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University since 2018, where he co-leads the OsloMet Digital Journalism Research Group and has institutionalized its OsloMet DJRG fellowship that has attracted more than 30 fellows from all over the world. Westlund is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism (since 2018), an internationally leading journal in communication for which he has introduced several new article formats. He has authored and edited multiple books, as well as 100+ articles, chapters and reports. His award-winning research focuses on journalism, social media, mobile media, misinformation, fact-checking as well as media- and information literacy. Westlund has worked at several renowned universities in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. He was a visiting scholar RISJ at University of Oxford in 2011, and acts as the Sweden representative for the annual RISJ Digital News Report project. Westlund and his colleagues have been awarded and carried out research projects granted by national research councils in Norway, Sweden, Spain and Singapore. Westlund has worked as a research leader at the Government Offices of Sweden and served several EU inquiries. In 2026 he is a visiting professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJAIT) and a faculty associate at the Public Tech Media Lab at University of Wisconsin. Westlund continues to serve as chair of the advisory board for the Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS) since 2021. NORDIS is an independent non-partisan multidisciplinary hub for the EU Digital Media Observatory.