Digital Falsehoods and their Analog Consequences: The “Fake News” Strategy and its Mitigation.
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2021
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Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios - UNIMINUTO
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Governments worldwide struggle with “fake news” and disinformation. While “fake news” is not an
accurate term, it is critical in describing the intentionally disruptive propaganda or disinformation
using a news media format. “Fake news” may be executed by malevolent state-level or grassroots
actors to disrupt elections and civic life. Current discourses often misidentify “fake news” as simply
wrong information, rather than evaluate political motivations for its spread and identify the groups
vulnerable to its influence. As more cities strive to adopt an “MIL cities” mandate, the means to tackle
misinformation must be included to ensure efficacy. This paper evaluates the dangers of neutral
conceptions of “fake news” to MIL, and why addressing discontent rather than disinformation is a
better approach for reducing the harms of “fake news.
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Capítulo 7 - MIL Cities and MIL Citizens: Informed, Engaged, Empowered by Media and Information Literacy (MIL).
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Propaganda