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News on Fake News: Logics of Media Discourses on Disinformation [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
2 points by jruohonen on Nov 14, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



A good self-reflection. They discuss five logics of (fake) news about fake news in the Scandinavian context:

(1) anticipation ("it is coming");

(2) exteriorisation ("it is foreign, never by ourselves");

(3) technologization ("it is the AI");

(4) securitization ("it is about national security and we need military to counter it");

(5) pre-legitimation ("ad-hoc speculation about countermeasures in crisis situations").

My personal take is that some of these are counterproductive -- if not outright dangerous, like the case (4). Like everywhere, no one dares to truly reflect upon the case (2).




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