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News on Fake News: Logics of Media Discourses on Disinformation [pdf]
- jruohonen 3y agoA good self-reflection. They discuss five logics of (fake) news about fake news in the Scandinavian context: (1) anticipation ("it is coming"); (2) exteriorisation ("it is foreign, never by ourselves"); (3) technologization ("it is the AI"); (4) securitization ("it is about national security and we need military to counter it"); (5) pre-legitimation ("ad-hoc speculation about countermeasures in crisis situations"). My personal take is that some of these are counterproductive -- if not outright dangerous, like the case (4). Like everywhere, no one dares to truly reflect upon the case (2).