On July 18, 2017, RIAC held a debate titled “Fake News and World Politics”. The lecturers were Lawrence McDonnell, former BBC corresponded in Moscow, and Pavel Koshkin, Deputy Editor of RBC’s international department and former Editor-in-Chief of the analytical resource Russia Direct in English ...
... based on the U.S. electoral college structure. However, months after Donald Trump was declared President of the United States, questions remain about the legitimacy of the U.S. elections. The central issues are the emergence and use of so-called ‘Fake News’ and the accusation that Russia, through espionage and online hacking operations, sought to influence the presidential elections to promote Donald Trump and denigrate the reputation of Hillary Clinton.
The issues thrown up in the wake of the ...
... been completely dependent on it. We now have to find ways to replace that, which means that we have to enlarge our audience and charge them for reading our articles. That is the economic discussion.
The second track of the discussion revolves around fake news. I do not think that fake news are so important for most media. Look, every news we publish has been vetted not by an algorithm, not by a robot but by a journalist. And we have enough journalists, enough manpower, and enough resources to check ...