SOCIAL MEDIA MIGHT SPREAD DISINFORMATION, BUT BEFORE THE INTERNET, GOVERNMENT NARRATIVES WERE KING – WORLDVIEW MEETING HEARS
June 1st, 2019
WHILE concern grows about the use of social media to spread falsehoods, it does at least allow information to circulate that governments might prefer to suppress, speakers at the Worldviews on Media and Higher Education Conference, held at Canada’s University of Toronto have stressed.
In a session on the responsibilities of the media and higher education when dealing with truth, ‘post-truth’ and reconciliation in South Africa and the Middle East, journalists and educators shared firsthand accounts of reporting and media challenges in these ...
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