6 Jul 2019

Fake News: Traditional Media Against New Networks

Session 19

The audience and revenues of the traditional media (press, television and radio) are gradually being eaten away by the major digital players with the diffusion of the new Internet networks. We now live in the world of interconnectivity-based digital media. These new media are constantly sending data to each other, recording our professions, our activities, our movements… thus transforming their function and their initial role as intermediaries.

In recent years, all media are regularly contaminated by fake news, and we live in an environment of widespread loss of confidence in the media. The disadvantage is that the lie seems to circulate faster than the truth; especially since the speed of the spread complicates the effectiveness of the response put in place.

The fight against fake news is now essential because this biased information undermines our trust in the media, to our knowledge of the world and to the trust we place more generally in the institutions that govern our common life. Ultimate paradox, the contemporaries of democracy even stand as eager defenders of freedom of expression to justify the dissemination of their content. In this context, what is the evolution of the role of journalists? What is their accountability? What is the objective behind the production of false information? Is there a correlation between the dissemination of fake news and the decline of democracy? How can we define the reliability of a medium? Has the consumer lost sight of the need to pay for reliable and substantiated information?

Coordination


Dominique ROUX

Membre

Cercle des économistes

Biography

Moderator


Daniel FRANKLIN

Executive and Diplomatic Editor

The Economist

Biography

Speakers


Mathieu COURTECUISSE

Chief Executive Officer

Sia Partners

Biography

Fabrice FRIES

Chairman and CEO

Agence France Presse

Biography

Martin GURRI

President and Chief Analyst

Fifth Wave Analytics

Biography

Nic NEWMAN

Senior Research Fellow

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Biography

Claire WARDLE

Co-Founder

First Draft

Biography
All the speakers

Contributions

Audience Perspectives on Misinformation, Disinformation and Trust

Session 19 : Fake News: Traditional Media Against New Networks

The term “fake news” was born out of a need to explain the impossible: the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. The phrase lacked salience before November 2016. Eight days after the election...

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Session 19 – Fake News: Traditional Media Against New Networks?

The media in the first sense of the word are intermediaries. Their legitimacy is based on legal, ethical or moral bases, and it is on the basis of these principles that a true media is defined.

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