Fake News: A Definition
Despite being a new term, ‘fake news’ has evolved rapidly. This paper argues that it should be reserved for cases of deliberate presentation of (typically) false or misleading claims as news, where these are misleading by design. The phrase ‘by design’ here refers to systemic features of the design...
Main Author: | Axel Gelfert |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2018-03-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
Online Access: | https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5068 |
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