Posted on 01/26/2017 4:55:15 AM PST by tekrat
A case of double bluff – this was the conclusion Swedish internet users reached after a Swedish website presenting itself as the next in a series of websites devoted to checking facts and challenging disinformation turned out to be doing the contrary of what it claimed – not checking but reinforcing disinformation.
As we have reported, awareness of the disinformation problem is growing both globally, via e.g. the First Draft News project and self-help initiatives, and locally in many EU Member States, e.g. France, Denmark and Sweden, where e.g. theViralgranskaran project now counts more than 70,000 followers in Facebook.
(Excerpt) Read more at euvsdisinfo.eu ...
Sweden is way, way too late. The US already has fake fake news checkers. They’re called ABCCBSNBCCNNNPR.
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