Thanks for sharing Barrack, This looks very interesting. Aside from the Orwellian and McCarthyist undertones of “real” vs “fake” news. I do worry about the emerging fact-checking industrial complex, and in what countries what organisations, which organisations are bestowed with the authority of "fact-checking” “fake news”. In the US for example: "Facebook’s newest ‘fact checkers’ are Koch-funded climate deniers" https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be... <https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/> This Finish Initiative, although government driven (not bad in-itself, but there are issues obviously) seems to be multistakeholder and focusing on developing media literacy capacity.
On 20 May 2019, at 02:32, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,
Might be of interest to some.
Regards
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 14:48:29 -0600 Subject: [Internet Policy] Finland is winning the war on fake news To: ISOC Internet Policy <internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org>
Sharing this good article from CNN on Finland’s approach to fake news:
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/ <https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/>
TL;DR: Finland has long been a target of Russian disinformation campaigns; it combines media literacy training with reliable media and regulation. Its defenses are so strong that Russia has turned to softer targets.
RB — Richard Bennett High Tech Forum <http://hightechforum.org/> Founder Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator
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