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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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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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06 May 2020

Social media and fake news in the 2016 election

In the early 2000s, the growth of online news prompted a new set of concerns, among them that excess diversity of viewpoints would make it easier for like-minded citizens to form “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” where they would be insulated from contrary perspectives.

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05 May 2020

RUSSIA AS A HURRICANE, CHINA AS CLIMATE CHANGE: DIFFERENT WAYS OF INFORMATION WARFARE

Disinformation studies have been engaged in a pivot to Asia. A growing number of scholars and governmental experts around the globe who were once fixated on Russian operations are now […]

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04 May 2020

Why Americans don't trust the Media, A preliminary analysis

An alarming number of Americans no longer trust the media to report the news fairly. This study explores factors that explain variation in media trust.

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29 Apr 2020

Chernobyl and fake news

The media treatment of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant combined all the modalities of fake news and disinformation.

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24 Apr 2020

Like a broken rope

Histoire d'Arnaud de Montlaur, responsable de la levée des fonds de François Fillon pour les campagnes des primaires de la droite et du centre, puis des présidentielles de 2017.

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24 Apr 2020

Opinion and the Crowd

How to define the public opinion? What are the mechanisms for influencing the public?

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25 Mar 2020

How to Do nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy

In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell questions “what we currently perceive as productive”.

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18 Mar 2020

Discourse on the Method

Descartes tells how he found "the true method of attaining knowledge of all things of which (my) mind would be capable".

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10 Mar 2020

Truth and insincerity : lie, delusion, mythomania and fabulation

The usual notions of delirium, lies, fabulation, mythomania, can be associated or even entangled.

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04 Mar 2020

Coronavirus : "false information has affected the epidemic"

French weekly Le Point interviews Sebastian Dieguez on the effects of false information that have accompanied the coronavirus outbreak.

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