par Antoine Char Les tweets de Tommasso Debenedetti ont berné de nombreux médias du monde entier, ces dernières années. Cet enseignant romain a déjà « tué » le pape Benoît XVI, le président syrien Bachar al-Assad, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, qui dirigea l’URSS entre 1985 et 1991 (mort le 30 août dernier), l’écrivaine J. K. Rowling et le cinéaste franco-grec…
Président de Reporter sans frontières et cofondateur de Rue89, le journaliste français Pierre Haski croit que la désinformation doit être combattue autrement que par les lois[1]. Une entrevue de Mathieu Robert-Sauvé Quelle est votre perception de la Loi contre la manipulation de l’information[2], adoptée par la République française en 2018? Cette loi a été une…
par Philippe Lapointe Les initiatives québécoises pour contrer la désinformation se multiplient dans les médias québécois, comme partout en Occident. Tellement qu’on peut dire que la vérification des faits (fact checking) est devenue une discipline journalistique en soi. Ça se comprend : l’ampleur du phénomène de la désinformation atteint des niveaux difficiles à imaginer et constitue…
In the wake of a series of coordinated attacks that claimed more than 250 lives on April 21, the government of Sri Lanka shut off its residents’ access to social media and online messaging systems, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat and Viber. The official government concern was that “false news reports were spreading through social…
We shouldn’t need a Super Bowl commercial costing around $10 million to remind us that information is supposed to matter in a democracy. Yet the Washington Post thought we did, so it told 111 million Americans watching the Super Bowl that “knowing empowers us, knowing helps us decide, knowing keeps us free.” It was another…
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This article was originally published by the Winnipeg Free Press and appears here with the editor’s permission. Thursday, Nov. 7, 1918 — 100 years ago today — was a pleasant fall day in Winnipeg, with the temperature hovering around 0 C. Based on today’s boundaries, Winnipeg was then a city of about 220,000 and had…
In an age of misinformation, disinformation, AI and media manipulation, how can news organizations and platforms like Google build trust with audiences? Continue Reading Live blog: Building trust in media