Respondents from leading news media houses mentioned that while misinformation could be a problem, it wasn’t much of an issue in Iceland. The interviewees said that they used their journalistic skills to identify fake news and believed that checking sources helped them to identify misinformation. With regard to foreign news, most of the interviewees mentioned they used credible news agencies and foreign news outlets and trusted the verification procedures used by those agencies and outlets. None of the news media in our sample collaborated with external fact-checking institutions or ran an in-house verification department, not even the public broadcaster RÚV. Overall, interviewees mentioned that Icelandic news outlets were simply too small to invest in verification departments, and most thought it was unnecessary, since fake news was not perceived as much of a problem in the country.
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