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
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Cunliffe-Jones Peter
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| 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
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2025 |
| ©2025 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 303.375 |
| Soggetto topico: | Freedom of speech |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fake News – What’s the harm |
| ISBN: | 1-915445-38-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911003563203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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