Search: Fake news,West,Media (2 materials)

Five Challenges for Modern Public Diplomacy and How to Tackle Them

... buzz among Russian and American experts. For public diplomacy, again, it was a blow, if insignificant: in his article, Daily Beast ’s author James Kirchick tried to question the reputation of Carnegie Moscow Center. Another example is the attempt of Western journalists to create blacklists of those media, which spread Kremlin propaganda and fake news to discredit democracy in the U.S. and in Europe. In late November, 2016, the Washington Post created publicity for the so-called PropOrNot project (Propaganda or Not). It came up with the blacklist of the Russian and Western publications, ...

18.10.2018

Make Facts Great Again: Is it Possible to Withstand Fake News?

... “ Comment is free, but facts are sacred ”, entertainment is free, but news are sacred. Ironically, today audience fails to even separate opinions from news sometimes, which yet highlights the scale of the problem. Ivan Timofeev: Russia and the West: An Information War? Finally and most importantly, diligent fact-checking and fostering media literacy in universities and schools could be helpful to alleviate the problem of fake news. Creating different media resources and journalism exchange programs to withstand fakes news is one of the ways to deal with the challenge. For example, “ Make Facts Great Again ”, a joint journalist project initiated by the participants ...

27.09.2017

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