Fake news is characterised as ‘falsehoods that are deliberately manufactured and circulated with an intent to mislead’ (Claire Wardle 2017). The term ‘fake news’ rose to prominence during the 2016 U.S Presidential Election campaign when Donald Trump branded any news story he did not deem favourable ‘fake news’. This term began to be used by many conservative politicians and has spread throughout the world, increasingly being used to spread theories concerning the coronavirus pandemic. Richey argues that the fake news strategy is not to ‘establish falsehoods as true, but rather pollute political discourse such that news information consumers are led
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Online Love Speech
What is “Online Love Speech” campaign? It is the first campaign in the MENA region to raise awareness and to mobilize a network of influential in order to combat online hate speech in the region, the first phase of the project and a campaign started from Jordan and the campaign will be targeted to Arabic-speaking countries. What is the “combating online hate speech” campaign? Why do we need to have such a project and campaign? Online hate speech is an old worldwide phenomenon that is getting worse every day with the growing number of social media platforms and the growing number of social
Alternative narratives: a tool to educate and counter the culture of hate
In this globalized and developed world, everything goes faster and faster. The spread of information is eased thanks to social media and online platforms. Is the information always fair and tolerant? No. Indeed, some troublemakers are hiding behind a computer to spread messages of hate and intolerance, propaganda and fake news, under different forms. It became a social phenomenon. These violent data put the world, the youth, the education system and much more in danger. These “speeches of Hate”, are an offend and an attack to a person or a group of people, and it can be very hard to
Alternative Narrative: the right path to prevent hate speech
Nowadays, negative attitudes towards human being -such as hatred, violent extremism, racism and so on- are spreading more and more rapidly. This phenomenon is certainly fed through offline communication, that is through all the so-called “traditional” media and forms of communication; but, in the current era of social media in which we are living currently. The main cause for the widespread phenomenon is that the online communication, and, in a specific way, those social media that nowadays are common to a wide public of all ages, but used by teenagers and young people, in particular, who are consequently the most exposed to