The ‘Washington Post’ parody demands a better future and explains that civic action like the Jan. 19 Women’s March can help us get there.
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A parody of ‘the Washington Post’ announcing that Donald Trump had resigned was recently handed out in Washington, D.C.
The Yes Men in 2009 handing out spoof editions of the ‘New York Post’ with the lead story ‘We’re Screwed’ outlining how “climate change is threatening the lives of New Yorkers — especially those who take the subway to work.”
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For media activists The Yes Men, hoaxes have emerged as a proven tactic to generate public discourse on social justice issues that are not generally given space and time in mainstream news media.
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WhatsApp has become a haven of misinformation in developing countries.
Jair Bolsonaro at his inauguration on Jan 1, 2019.
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The Brazilian president used WhatsApp and other social media to smear his opponents and sow division in the electorate.
Based in Québec, Porte Parole led by Annabel Soutar has toured and run several documentary theatre shows. Pictured here, ‘The Watershed,’ a docudrama about the politics of water in Canada.
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Reality based theatre is one way artists are challenging the lies put out by politicians like U.S. President Donald Trump, who exploits our contemporary insecurities.
A gilets jaunes “yellow vest” protester on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris takes a photograph using his mobile phone (December 8, 2018).
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There’s an orderly fashion to so-called disruptive “manifestations”, as they’re called in French. But the “gilets jaunes” didn’t follow the rules. So who exactly broke the rules?
Applications like Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp have brought a broad range of users in on public discussions.
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New media platforms have changed the way people create, consume and relate the news.
The Melbourne Declaration provides a national vision of what education in Australia should be for.
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The Melbourne Declaration is now ten years old. It acts as a national guide for education policy, practice and delivery in Australian schools.
You can help stop the spread of ‘fake news’ online.
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We used game theory to show you only need a small amount of fake news to disrupt any group discussion. But we also found a way you can fight back.
Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root interviews New Mexico State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn along Highway 652 near the Texas-New Mexico border.
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A recent survey found that Americans trust local media outlets far more than national ones.
Nigerians have the lowest trust in the country’s media, thanks to widespread misinformation.
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Disinformation in Africa often takes the form of extreme speech inciting violence and spreading racist, misogynous, xenophobic messages.
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Despite their derision, media outlets such as the Canary and Breitbart, still source much of their information from the mainstream press.
New research shows that more and more of our public conversation is unfolding within a dwindling coterie of sites that are controlled by a small few, largely unregulated and geared primarily to profit rather than public interest.
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New research into the economics of attention online casts doubt on the net’s role in fostering public debate, and raises concerns about the future of democracy.
An 1899 photograph of the pressroom of the Planet, a newspaper in Richmond, Va.
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To survive in 19th-century newsrooms, reporters would have to hustle to get by, even if it meant producing fakes, staging events and sharing work with reporters from competing newspapers.
A pop-up newsroom debunking facts and proposing real time fact-checking can change how media publish stories during specific events such as elections.
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Monitoring the spread of mis-information and dis-information during the Swedish national elections by a group of scholars and journalist could set a precedent elsewhere.
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Will we soon no longer be able to discern which videos are real and which are fake?
Have we lost our grip on the truth?
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A psychologist explains what can happen to individuals and societies that lose their grip on the truth.
More Australians are turning to social media as a source of news.
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Teaching media literacy to students can curb the impact of false news, but teachers need more support from their schools and community to do this.
Information and relationships are increasingly online, which can make it hard to know who to trust.
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As long as there are no hidden agendas, it is surprisingly simple to reach the right decision when faced with contradictory information.
Malcolm Turnbull has blamed the conservative faction in the Liberal Party for the ‘insurgency’ that led to his resignation as prime minister.
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Truth and trust are in short supply in Western democracies. It’s imperative our political leaders end the constant bickering and sideshows and restore public confidence in good governance.