[kictanet] How to Fight "Fake News"

Thu Sep 21 10:29:12 EAT 2017

We have people who can still fake watermarks. 

Why not do the IT way and use digital signatures that are harder to fake?

Regards,

Alex

From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+awatila=yahoo.co.uk at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of anyega jefferson via kictanet
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] How to Fight "Fake News"

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 <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:

Joash

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 <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:

Dear Listeners,

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.

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.

Link <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/media/fight-fake-news.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits>  

Best, 

Joash Moitui

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