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183 Stop Calling It Fake News

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183 Stop Calling It Fake News

20 Dec 2017

The Shorenstein Center’s Claire Wardle and journalist Hossein Derakhshan explain how information disorder explain how information disorder has taken the world by storm, breaking down how it’s created, produced, and distributed, paying particular attention to the ways in which social media has exacerbated the problem, and making the case that the term F*** News isn’t just inaccurate, but actively harmful to democratic institutions.
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Authors

Harvard Kennedy School

Duration
38:03
Episode number
183
Published in
United States of America

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