Technology as Enabler of Fake News and a Potential Tool to Combat It
In-Depth Analysis
15-05-2018
This paper investigates the role of technology in the circulation of the so-called fake news. Technology is a major tool for the dissemination of fake news but also offers methods to analyse their real impacts and tools with which fake news can be argued against and even, more or less democratically, stopped. This document was prepared for Policy Department A at the request of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee.
In-Depth Analysis
External author
Dr Ziga TURK
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- communications
- disinformation
- dissemination of information
- documentation
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- information warfare
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- Internet
- mass media
- new technology
- political propaganda
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- social media
- technology and technical regulations