Digital Falsehoods and theirAnalog Consequences: The “FakeNews” Strategy and its Mitigation
- Autores: Lisa Jane de Gara
- Localización: MIL Cities and MIL Citizens: Informed, Engaged, Empowered by Media and Information Literacy (MIL) / coord. por Alton Grizzle, Maarit Jaakkola, Tomás Durán Becerra, 2021, ISBN 978-958-763-502-7, págs. 129-144
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Governments worldwide struggle with “fake news” and disinformation. While “fake news” is not anaccurate term, it is critical in describing the intentionally disruptive propaganda or disinformationusing a news media format. “Fake news” may be executed by malevolent state-level or grassrootsactors to disrupt elections and civic life. Current discourses often misidentify “fake news” as simplywrong information, rather than evaluate political motivations for its spread and identify the groupsvulnerable to its influence. As more cities strive to adopt an “MIL cities” mandate, the means to tacklemisinformation must be included to ensure efficacy. This paper evaluates the dangers of neutralconceptions of “fake news” to MIL, and why addressing discontent rather than disinformation is abetter approach for reducing the harms of “fake news.”
