[kictanet] How to Fight "Fake News"

[anyega jefferson]

Is the use of watermarks on online documents a sustainable way of fighting
fake news? I.e, If info from Council of Governors, to have its watermark?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Joash
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> Asante. Much appreciated. Wish we could have access to that research
> though.. :-)
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> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Joash Moitui via kictanet <
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>> Dear Listeners,
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>> Researchers have spent decades trying to understand how
>> such misinformation (fake news) spreads and, now, a review of their work
>> offers new guidance for the journalists, fact-checkers and others working
>> to find, and defend, the truth.
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>> In a report published last week
>> <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617714579> in
>> Psychological Science, a team of academics reviewed two decades of research
>> to better understand how to effectively debunk misinformation. In the end,
>> they found eight worthwhile studies, with more than 6,800 participants.
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>> Link
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/media/fight-fake-news.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits>
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>> Best,
>> Joash Moitui
>> joash.moitui at gmail.com
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