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Facts and science don’t matter in the new media ecosystem What follows is the abstract of my paper just published by Comunicación y Hombre, of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. The emergence of search engines and social media networks in the past two decades created a new media ecosystem. It allowed the instantaneous creation, distribution, […]
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As we all struggle to make sense of the flood of disinformation and misinformation in digital media, some entrepreneurs are developing businesses to help us identify the good stuff, the credible stuff. At the heart of one of the three business models is transparency–full disclosure–to increase our trust of particular media. And the other two […]
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Lies have a life of their own, and people want to believe them, especially when they are about people they don’t like, “the other”. Facts don’t sway people. As Laura Hazard Owen recently reported in Nieman Lab, three leading fact-checking organizations have said their work needs to go beyond simply calling out the lies of […]
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Hay varias expresiones en inglés -el lenguaje del capitalismo-, que equiparan el dinero con algo real y fiable. “El dinero habla”. “Muéstrame el dinero” (para demostrar tu compromiso). A estos agregamos una del castellano: “Fía en tu duro más que en amigo ninguno”. El modo en el que la gente obtiene y gasta el dinero […]
Read More »Filloux: A credibility scorecard Liberal democracies are being tested around the world by the rapid diffusion of misleading or false information designed to influence voters. It has happened in France, Catalonia, the U.K., and, of course, the U.S. Many have proposed–for example, the World Economic Forum–that two of the most powerful vehicles for spreading information, […]
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