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

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Tag: Disinformation

Canaries
in The Coal Mine: Covid-19 Misinformation And Black Communities

False information regarding COVID-19 is spreading through Black online spaces writes Brandi Collins-Dexter.

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

In this article, a team of psychologists tries to explain why we sometimes share false information on the Internet.

How do the French inform themselves on the Internet ?

What proportion of time spent online is dedicated to the consultation of news information? Which online information sources do the French consult most?

The propagation of fake news on Twitter

This CSA report analyzes the mechanisms by which false information spreads on Twitter.

Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation.

This article, which regroups four experimental studies, shows that individuals generally avoid voluntarily sharing fake news for fear that it will affect their reputation.

Mail-in voter fraud and disinformation campaign

In this Harvard University study, Yochai Benkler and his colleagues dissect what they consider to be a disinformation campaign instigated by high-ranking members of the Republican Party.

Misinformation, a plea for the reform of information

“Politicians and media institutions, beyond all reason, share the heavy responsibility of reducing citizens’ exposure to “the political question”. This tendency originates from the supposed (and gradually proven) aversion of […]

Pseudo-Information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas: Theory

The explosive usage in recent years of the terms “fake news” and “posttruth” reflects worldwide frustration and concern about rampant social problems created by pseudo-information. Our digital networked society and […]

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. […]

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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