Скачать или смотреть Media credibility and consumer credulity - The Foreign Press Association and Reboot Foundation

Helen Lee Bouygues and the Paris based Reboot Foundation outline their research into media credibility and consumer credulity.

At one point there were over a thousand tweets a minute on COVID 19, many of them the equivalent of shouting “Fire” in a crowded cinema, or worse Trump's loud reassurance “There is no fire!” in a blazing cinema. But governments should not decide what news is fake, nor can we trust the “markets” dominated by monopolies like Facebook, Twitter, Google etc.

With the deployment of deep-fake technologies and fast breeding cyberbots, consumers need new ways to sort truth from fiction. Was Angela Merkel right that Twitter had no right to shut down Trump’s Twitter feed? But surely someone should have?

Helen Lee Bouygues questions the transparency of technology company algorithms and how to make the web giants responsible for their content. Her suggestions include a media literacy campaign to make fact checking second nature for information consumers, how to sort out paid content from commentary.