Fake News – What's the harm? Four ideas for fact-checkers, policymakers & platforms on countering the consequences of false information & defending free speech
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ArtikelUtgivningsinformation: University of Westminster Press 2025Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (281 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9781915445360
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Cultural and media studies
- Media studies
- Politics and government
- Political structure and processes
- Central government
- Central government policies
- Central
- Media studies
- Political structure and processes
- Politics and government
- federal government policies
- national
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Former news reporter and founder of Africa's first fact-checking organisation Peter Cunliffe-Jones argues that since concern about 'information disorder' soared in 2016, we have laboured under flawed assumptions about the nature and effects of 'fake news' and misinformation. Based on a four-year review of 250 case studies, Cunliffe-Jones sets out four ideas for fact-checkers, policymakers and platforms to curb harmful consequences and protect wider freedom of speech. First, information disorder is about more than misinformation. Second, misinformation in offline settings can cause as big a problem as misinformation online. Third, misinformation that affects policymakers can be as bad as misinformation that affects the public. Fourth, he proposes a model for fact-checkers, researchers and platforms to distinguish false claims that do and do not have substantive potential to cause substantive consequences.
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