Hey, where are you going with that post-truth in your hands?
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...The rift in the U.S., just like at home
Great polarization, deep rift, religious partisanship. All these descriptions applied to the political and social reality in the United States sound familiar to me. The division – deepened by a controversial leader in recent years – has worsened in the run up to the...
Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...
The Newseum is closing, the future is still unclear
The Newseum, a museum dedicated to journalism and the First Amendment, and situated between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, will close at the end of 2019. “This was a difficult decision, but it was the responsible one,” said Jan Neuharth, chair аnd CEO of the...
When lies trump truth – the press should call them by their name
Legacy U.S. newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are using unprecedented language in their political copy with words like “lie” and “racist”. “We’d never used the word ‘lie’ before we had Trump,” Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York...
Our 4/14 recorded webinar on #disinformation featuring @BostonJoan, @andraspe & @mdmontgomery is now posted to our website for anyone who missed out! #WPIDisinformationWebinar
https://worldpressinstitute.org/news/the-spread-of-online-disinformation/
Great webinar on the global scale of disinformation, got to hear from the incredible @BostonJoan and about the impressive work of @andraspe in Hungary. So important to see the power of bad info.
Webinar on WPI site.
& follow and support @direkt36 — investigative journalism!! https://twitter.com/worldpressinst/status/1382346097549512704
Thanks again to our partners at the America for Bulgaria Foundation & @AEJBulgaria, plus our experts @BostonJoan & @andraspe & moderator @mdmontgomery for making #WPIDisinformationWebinar happen.