Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Civic duty to combat 'fake news'

Interesting article in The Irish Times on Saturday, December 29 on our duty to combat 'fake news'.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/combating-fake-news-the-21st-century-civic-duty-1.3739327#.XCtanYx6VpI.mailto

1 comment:

Andreas said...

That could have been also a story from the GDR propaganda bureau!

"In 1973, the SED officially banned the public from watching West German television. Unofficially, however, it was tolerated -- so East Germans with televisions were able to learn everything their leaders kept them in ignorance of, from the country's chronic pollution to the dilapidated state of its cities."

https://www.dw.com/en/west-german-tv-the-class-enemy-in-the-front-room/a-3804892

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