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The internet and technological tools that provide internet access have brought innovations in local journalism in terms of both the reader and the limit of journalism. Despite innovations and changes, one of the important common issues in both traditional and internet journalism is the news verification process. This study, which focuses on the verification process in local Internet journalism, was carried out in Hatay province. The study is important in terms of defining the role of readers in the news verification process. In the study, in which the quantitative method was used, a survey was conducted with the participation of 1065 people in seven districts of Hatay in order to reveal the role of the readers in the news verification process. There is a positive relationship between the level of trust of the readers in the news verification process. Readers generally verify the news they trust or do not perform a verification process for the relevant news, even though they do not trust it. On the other hand, the readers mostly turn to non-journalistic tools/areas in the news of which they doubt the content

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