The press struggles for credibility in the face of info-toxificationnew strategies emerge to counter decentralized hoaxes

  1. Breiner, James G. 1
  1. 1 University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Zeitschrift:
Comunicación y hombre: Revista interdisciplinar de ciencias de la comunicación y humanidades

ISSN: 1885-365X

Datum der Publikation: 2021

Titel der Ausgabe: Infoxicación: El "horror vacui" del siglo XXI

Nummer: 17

Seiten: 39-51

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.32466/EUFV-CYH.2021.17.655.39-51 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Zusammenfassung

The emergence of search engines and social media networks in the past two decades created a new media ecosystem that allowed the instantaneous creation, distribution, manipulation, and sharing of content to a global audience by anyone with a smartphone and internet access. This ecosystem was ripe for exploitation by actors with aims of profit or propaganda to disrupt society and threaten democratic processes. Their disinformation sowed distrust and undermined the credibility of the press. The dispersed, decentralized nature of this communication has made it hard to police. However, new countermeasures are emerging based on international collaboration on systems for rating trustworthiness of publications and journalists. The technology platforms are collaborating on some of these efforts, but are resisting efforts to have regulators interfere with their business model.

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