Reality filters: disinformation and fake news

Tredinnick, Luke and Laybats, Claire (2019) Reality filters: disinformation and fake news. Business Information Review, 36 (3). pp. 92-94. ISSN 1741-6450

Abstract

The recent past has been characterised by both a rise in fake news and the emergence of a febrile political atmosphere. Increasingly social media and digital networking are coming under the spotlight as significant causes. The internet has become perhaps a disinformation superhighway, the promised wisdom of crowds (Suriwuecki, 2004) degenerating into the clamour of the twitter mob (e.g. Ronson, 2015). Fake news and disinformation have come to dominate, and the democratising effects of digital media have been undone by increasing concentrations of power into a handful of tech companies. In this editorial we explore the rise of fake news and how it is transforming public discourse.

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