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Record Nr.

UNINA9911003563203321

Autore

Cunliffe-Jones Peter

Titolo

Fake News - What's the Harm? : Four Ideas for Fact-Checkers, Policymakers and Platforms on Countering the Consequences of False Information and Defending Free Speech

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-915445-38-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Disciplina

303.375

Soggetti

Freedom of speech

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 – What Is ‘Fake News’? --   Chapter 1 Defining Terms: Fake News, Misinformation and Disinformation --   Chapter 2 Where and When False Information Has Effect: Why Setting and Context Matter --   Chapter 3 Rethinking the Nature and Drivers of Information Disorder -- Part 2 – What’s the Harm? --   Chapter 4 Media Theory and Evidence of False Information Consequences --   Chapter 5 How Changes in Factual Understanding May Cause or Contribute to These Consequences --   Chapter 6 The Specific Substantive Consequences of False Information Examined for This Study -- Part 3 – Predicting the Weather. Predicting Harm? --   Chapter 7 A Model for Identifying the Potential of False Information to Cause or Contribute to Specific Consequences --   Chapter 8 A Model for Identifying the Potential Field and Weight of False Information Consequences and Information Disorder --   Conclusion -- Suggested Further Reading -- Appendices --   Appendix 1 – Link to the Database and Guidelines Used for This Study --   Appendix 2 –  Fields and Evidence of Specific Substantive Consequences --   Appendix 3 –  Factors Affecting the Field and Weight of Consequences that Occur -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Former news reporter and founder of Africa's first fact-checking organisation Peter Cunliffe-Jones argues that since concern about



'information disorder' soared in 2016, we have laboured under flawed assumptions about the nature and effects of 'fake news' and misinformation.