
The liberal paradigm of the media believes that we are rational, autonomous individuals, who can tell truth from lie. This is now being replaced by the understanding that we have to be protected from fake news. What is the new element here and what does it tell us about the world in which we live and in which we have lived?
Maria Cernat
This article was published on 8 October 2020 at the English section of the site “The Barricade”.
Oxford University has recently published a study, according to which conspiracy videos on YouTube on the Covid-19 pandemic were watched by more viewers than the audiences of the five most popular TV channels in the USA. This information is causing concern in the circles that deal professionally with disinformation. In the following article I will analyse a number of interesting aspects of the fake news problem and the theory of media.
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