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Screen grab from snazzy new video from @EU_Commission and @eu_eeas on disinformation
Really not very helpful it, more than a year after High-Level Group recommended abandoning misleading+harmful term "fake news", still relies on it, and combines it w/dodgy use of survey data 1/4
Really not very helpful it, more than a year after High-Level Group recommended abandoning misleading+harmful term "fake news", still relies on it, and combines it w/dodgy use of survey data 1/4
1) The term "fake news" is misleading because much disinformation is neither fake nor news, and harmful because it helps undercut trust in actual news.
See e.g. medium.com/@hlegresponse/… and tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… 2/4
See e.g. medium.com/@hlegresponse/… and tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… 2/4
2) The survey question 83% figure comes from DOES NOT ASK ABOUT "FAKE NEWS" but much broader Q whether "news or information the misrepresent reality or is even false" is a problem. (And I have pointed this out before, see e.g. ) 3/4
Find it frustrating and disappointing that after year+ of private meetings, public dicussions, and reams of expert input our tax money is being used in such a clumsy & counter-productive way. Those who care about quality of public debate should not be muddying waters this way 4/4
The video is here:
