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Fondation Descartes

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

Operation and governance

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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Our podcasts

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

Actors

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.

Initiatives

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.

Our references and resources

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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28 Sep 2020

Journalism in a democracy

What role does journalism play in a democracy? What does it mean to see and render visible the contemporary world? What is the political significance of such an activity? Does […]

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28 Sep 2020

The Subversion

Professor Roger Mucchielli retraces the modern history of subversion and analyzes its mechanisms and major events. A radical change has taken place in the conception of modern warfare. Today, war […]

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23 Sep 2020

Information Manipulation

From Tiananmen to the Gulf, via Timisoara, the author describes, sometimes in a vitriolic style, the blunders of the media, who in his view have become too sure of themselves. […]

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23 Sep 2020

The Art of Being Right

38 tricks and methods to appear to be right despite being objectively wrong, or to defeat your opponent by arguing in bad faith. A short treatise for anyone who is […]

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23 Sep 2020

The concern for sincerity

The conversations surrounding sincerity are as fierce and vivid as they are muddled. Yvon Belaval analyzes the ways in which sincerity relates to truth, knowledge and self-expression. In The concern […]

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21 Sep 2020

In Praise of Sincerity

Concealing oneself behind a mask, as Descartes once claimed, has become a necessity for anybody wishing to participate in the “spectacle society” that democracy has become. Montesquieu’s In Praise of […]

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21 Sep 2020

Responsible information

Criticism towards the media and journalists is gaining momentum by the day. Economic and advertising constraints, technological upheavals and societal demands are weighing down on the press with unprecedented intensity. […]

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21 Sep 2020

On Bullshit

"L’un des traits les plus caractéristiques de notre culture est l’omniprésence “One of the most characteristic features of our culture is the omnipresence of bullshit.” This short essay, though taking […]

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21 Sep 2020

Disinformation, a weapon of war

According to Volkoff, the collapse of the USSR has not stifled the tidal wave of misinformation imposed on the public by the mass media. Rather, it has made this disinformation […]

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21 Sep 2020

The Contagion of ideas

Where do our ideas come from? Some come from ourselves, or so we think, but most of them are communicated to us by others, and we pass them on in […]

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