Journalists, politicians, academics, and governments all agree that the problem of news manipulation needs to be addressed, even if no one seems to be able to agree on what to call it. The terms ‘fake news’, ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’, and ‘propaganda’ are all used interchangeably. Read the rest of this entry »
Bad News: A Psychological ‘vaccine’ against fake news – Sander van der Linden and Jon Rozenbeek
7 09 2019Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: Bad News, Fake News, LSE. Media Policy Project, Sander van der Linden and Jon Rozenbeek
Categories : Journalism, Media
Case Law, Strasbourg: Brzeziński v. Poland: Fine over ‘false’ information during election campaign violated Article 10 – Ronan Ó Fathaigh
16 08 2019
On 25 July 2019, the European Court of Human Rights delivered an important judgment in Brzeziński v. Poland, (available only in French) concerning a provision in Poland’s election law which allows a court, within 24 hours, to consider whether ‘untrue information’ has been published, and to issue an order prohibiting its further distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Ronan O Fathaigh, Strasbourg Observers
Categories : Caselaw, Freedom of expression, Human Rights
Governments are making fake news a crime but it could stifle free speech – Alana Schetzer
21 07 2019
The rapid spread of fake news can influence millions of people, impacting elections and financial markets. A study on the impact of fake news on the 2016 US presidential election, for instance, has found that fake news stories about Hillary Clinton was “very strongly linked” to the defection of voters who supported Barack Obama in the previous election. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alana Schetzer, Fake News, The Conversation
Categories : Freedom of expression, Journalism, Media Regulation
Journalism vs Churnalism: The push for “quality marks” in online news – Zoe McCallum
26 02 2019
Within a week of one another came two reports on the future of journalism in an age of big tech: The Cairncross Review (on 12 Feb) and The Commons DCMS Committee Final Report into Fake News and Disinformation (14 Feb – but with its excoriating criticism of Facebook, anything but a Valentine to Mark Zuckerberg). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cairncross Review, DCMS Committee, Fake News, Zoe McCallum
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
DCMS final report: Disinformation and “fake news”, Some initial thoughts – Zoe McCallum
20 02 2019
The final report of the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Disinformation and Fake News [pdf] was published on 18 February 2019. It is the product of an 18 month process – far in excess of the normal timeframe for Select Committee inquiries, involving 170 written submissions and 73 oral witnesses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: DCMS Committee, Fake News, Zoe McCallum
Categories : Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
News: DCMS Committee publishes its final report, “Disinformation and ‘fake news'”
19 02 2019
The House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published its final report on “Disinformation and ‘fake news’” [pdf] after an inquiry lasting 18 months. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: DCMS Committee, Fake News
Categories : Internet, Social Media
Why talking about ‘disinformation’ misses the point when considering radical right ‘alternative’ media – Julia Rone
9 01 2019
In light of the upcoming European Parliament elections, the European Commission published its Action Plan against Disinformation last month, aimed at protecting EU’s “democratic systems and public debates”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Julia Rone, LSE Media Policy Project Blog
Categories : Journalism, Media
Regulating online platforms for misinformation and disinformation – Mark Bunting
2 10 2018
How to deal with misinformation is a topic of significant debate in the UK, and a focus of the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology, which will launch its report in November. The Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has released its interim report from its inquiry into fake news, and is likely to publish its final report in the coming months. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, LSE. Media Policy Project, Mark Bunting
Categories : Internet, Social Media
In the era of ‘fake news’, Americans would like to change the media model – Marc Fleurbaey
18 07 2018
In a November 2016 article, Nick Couldry and Clemencia Rodriguez (from the International Panel on Social Progress) stated that “media infrastructure is a common good whose governance and design should be much more open to democratic engagement than currently.” Does the population agree with this view? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Marc Fleurbaey, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Journalism, Social Media
France: The legal fight against ‘fake news’ must not veer into censorship – Matthew Fraser
16 06 2018
France’s parliament is debating a law that would give the state the power to censor “fake news”. If the law is passed, the French state will have the powers to ban, through a court order, the publication of any news considered false in run-up period before elections. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Donald Trump, Fake News, Matthew Fraser, The Conversation
Categories : France, Journalism
