Interesting timeline:

Jan 2016: Finland calls in US experts "to advise officials on how to recognize fake news, understand why it goes viral and develop strategies to fight it".

Dec 2016: Fake news suspected to have materially influenced US elections.

This reminds me of at least one African proverb: "Mganga hajigangi" (literally translates to "doctor cannot treat self").

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Perhaps the real question is not "what should we do to eliminate fake news?" but rather "why do we have fake news?"..

Good evening,
Patrick.

Patrick A. M. Maina
[Cross-domain Innovator | Independent Public Policy Analyst - Indigenous Innovations]

On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 10:45:33 AM GMT+3, Alex Comninos via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:


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-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

Internet Policy Consultant




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