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Fondation Descartes

The Fondation Descartes is a citizen-based, non-partisan, and independent European foundation dedicated to information-based issues.

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La Fondation Descartes est animée par trois organes : un Conseil d’Administration présidé par Jean-Philippe Hecketsweiler ; un Conseil Scientifique encadré par Gérald Bronner et d’une équipe permanente, dirigée par Laurent Cordonier, Directeur de la recherche.

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La Fondation Descartes est une initiative citoyenne, apartisane, indépendante et européenne dédiée aux enjeux de l’information, de la désinformation et du débat public dans une société démocratique.

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Events

The Descartes Foundation lists significant events, in France and internationally, particularly related to the topics of disinformation, interference and media literacy.

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Selection of 'must-listen' podcasts on the Descartes Foundation's fields of research, in French, English or German.

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The Descartes Foundation offers you a cartography of the main actors involved in researching on the quality of information, or in fighting against disinformation, in France and throughout the world.

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Fact checkers, web extensions, journalistic standards... The Fondation Descartes offers you a map of initiatives in France and around the world involved in asserting the quality of information or in fighting against disinformation.

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The Fondation Descartes' experts select and comment on key publications on disinformation, trust in the media and the Foundation's other research topics. This data base is available online to members of the Foundation and in the Foundation's documentation centre.

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05 Aug 2020

The revenge of passions. Metamorphosis of violence and crises of the political

We are deeply imbued with the idea that modernity lies in the channelling of passions through reason, either by taking into account universal norms or by the composition of well-understood […]

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05 Aug 2020

Strategic ignorance and post-truth

If there is a robustness of science and knowledge, which makes their cumulative dimension possible, they can also be weakened. We shall discuss here two apparently quite different cases of […]

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04 Aug 2020

The challenges of media and information literacy

In a significant legislative context, with the recent law on “fake news” and the forthcoming law on audiovisual reform, the aim of this draft opinion is to question the strategies […]

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04 Aug 2020

History of Propaganda

Jacques Ellul delivers in one hundred and twenty pages a history of propaganda from ancient Greece to the middle of the twentieth century, in a context of fear of the […]

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04 Aug 2020

Peoplecraty : the Metamorphosis of our Democracies

Peopleocracy is the result of a twofold process. On the one hand, the rise of populist movements and parties; on the other hand, by contamination effect, the modification of the […]

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04 Aug 2020

Superstitious beliefs and the associative mind

Persistence of superstitions in the modern era could be justified by considering them as a by-product of the brain's capacity to detect associations and make assumptions about cause-effect relationships. This […]

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04 Aug 2020

Bonfire of truths. Which strategies in a fake-news-world?

How to build an effective strategy in an era of constant misinformation and mistrust? The multiplication of alternative facts (fake news), the hysterization of debates, the growing influence of digital […]

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04 Aug 2020

The field of insincerity

A word can be true or false. Right or wrong. Truthful or misleading. Realistic or delusional. Delusional has nothing to do with lying. Fabulation is not knowingly deceptive. The pathological […]

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04 Aug 2020

Foules en délires, extases collectives : study on methods of mysticism

This work by M. de Félice is the third in a series devoted to the comparative study of some of the principal methods of mysticism, a series which began in […]

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04 Aug 2020

The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

Viewed from the present cultural moment, when gossipy infotainment crowds out fact-based political reporting, Robert Darnton's book on ‘the art of slander’ brings to light an eighteenth-century subculture that, while […]

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