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The real fake news
Curated:
29/08/2017 from
medium.com/the-walkley-magazine/the-real-fake-news-77ac61060187
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Financial incentive is key to Silverman’s understanding of fake news, which he defines as online misinformation that is completely false, created to deceive and economically motivated. If online misinformation is being created for ideological reasons it’s propaganda...
delegitimising legitimate journalism... through delegitimising organisations that do it, and ... create an equivalency between actual real journalism and people that present themselves as journalists but are actually just supporters... Facebook and Google’s efforts to battle fake news... cannot stop the flood...
when people feel they have nowhere trustworthy and independent they can rely on is that they will turn inward ... It then becomes easier for malevolent forces to degrade institutions.
delegitimising legitimate journalism... through delegitimising organisations that do it, and ... create an equivalency between actual real journalism and people that present themselves as journalists but are actually just supporters... Facebook and Google’s efforts to battle fake news... cannot stop the flood...
when people feel they have nowhere trustworthy and independent they can rely on is that they will turn inward ... It then becomes easier for malevolent forces to degrade institutions.
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