This article looks beyond functionalist accounts to consider how fact-checking organisations and practitioners interact with traditional and alternative sites of media power: holding and negotiating that power in their own right while interfacing collaboratively and strategically with those working in adjacent fields. Interpreted through this theoretical prism, interviews and a content analysis reveal how RMIT ABC Fact Check used its CoronaCheck project to renegotiate and renew its position of authority, and master time, during a moment of intense disruption in the media environment due to the global pandemic. With critical insights from the data as a foundation, the article argues that making strategic concessions in practice – conceptualised here as ‘ceding ground’ – can open spaces for new approaches in fact-checking.

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让步作为事实核查的战略让步：将实践转变为权力转移

本文超越了功能主义的叙述，考虑了事实核查组织和从业者如何与传统的和替代的媒体权力网站互动：在与相邻领域的工作人员进行协作和战略性交互的同时，以自己的权利持有和谈判这种权力。通过这个理论棱镜解释，访谈和内容分析揭示了 RMIT ABC Fact Check 如何使用其CoronaCheck项目在全球大流行导致媒体环境严重破坏的时刻重新谈判和更新其权威地位并掌握时间。以来自数据的批判性见解为基础，文章认为，在实践中做出战略让步——在这里被概念化为“让步”——可以为事实核查的新方法开辟空间。