{"id":983,"date":"2024-08-27T00:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T00:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/?p=983"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T00:13:02","slug":"its-about-trust-public-service-media-and-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/resources\/its-about-trust-public-service-media-and-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s about trust: Public service media and disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mis- and disinformation in elections, fuelled and exacerbated by social networks, is not a new phenomenon. Public service media are often credited as an antidote. Is this deserved?\u00a0And does it mean societies are now better prepared and equipped to deal with \u2018fake news\u2019?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By\u00a0Minna Horowitz, Docent \/ Researcher at the University of Helsinki, and Marius Dragomir, Director of the Media and Journalism Research Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-background-color has-background\">Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliance (PMA)<br>in partnership with IAPMR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disinformation \u2013 its sources, topics, dissemination, and impact \u2013 has arguably been one of the most discussed and researched communication phenomena in the past decade. Yet, what we really know about ways to counter it is not evident. To start with,\u00a0no single, unified, definition for disinformation or so-called \u2018fake news\u2019\u00a0exists. To add to this definitional ambiguity, acquiring a comprehensive picture of disinformation spreading online is difficult because\u00a0researchers do not have sufficient access to platform data\u00a0to get a general overview of the prevalence of disinformation, its themes, sources, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicmediaalliance.org\/its-about-trust-public-service-media-and-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Full Text at PMA Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mis- and disinformation in elections, fuelled and exacerbated by social networks, is not a new phenomenon. Public service media are often credited as an antidote. Is this deserved?\u00a0And does it mean societies are now better prepared and equipped to deal with \u2018fake news\u2019? By\u00a0Minna Horowitz, Docent \/ Researcher at the University of Helsinki, and Marius&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/resources\/its-about-trust-public-service-media-and-disinformation\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s about trust: Public service media and disinformation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-insight","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapmr.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}