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Wishful Thinking in Disinformation Media after 2019 EP Election: Envisioning Huge Role for Eurosceptics
Politics
Wishful Thinking in Disinformation Media after 2019 EP Election: Envisioning Huge Role for Eurosceptics
During the EP election campaign, Political Capital and its three partners found out that both official Kremlin-backed portals (RT and Sputnik) and local pro-Kremlin media supported the campaigns of Eurosceptic parties by only describing their policy recommendations positively and exaggerating their chances in the EP elections1. Eurosceptic groups failed to achieve any kind of breakthrough […]
What to Do About <i>Fake News</i>?
Society
What to Do About Fake News?
People cannot always decide for themselves whether a message is false or distorted. No one is solely in possession of the final truth. However, getting the facts straight and actively pursuing \"counter speech\" is a task not only for the media but also for civil society and each individual user.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Fake News
Society
Harry Potter and the Deathly Fake News
Fake news are like religion, you must believe them despite of all common sense and evidence to the contrary. Like any radical religion, it must be protected at all costs. And so, in the fifth volume, Dolores Umbridge made Harry write lines, etching them into his own skin, saying: “I must not tell lies”.