[kictanet] [Internet Policy] Finland is winning the war on fake news

[Alex Comninos]

Thanks for sharing Barrack,

This looks very interesting.

Aside from the Orwellian and McCarthyist undertones of “real” vs “fake” news. I do worry about the emerging fact-checking industrial complex, and in what countries what organisations, which organisations are bestowed with the authority of "fact-checking” “fake news”. In the US for example: "Facebook’s newest ‘fact checkers’ are Koch-funded climate deniers"

https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/ <https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/>

This Finish Initiative, although government driven (not bad in-itself, but there are issues obviously) seems to be multistakeholder and focusing on developing media literacy capacity.


> On 20 May 2019, at 02:32, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Listers,
> 
> Might be of interest to some.
> 
> Regards
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 14:48:29 -0600
> Subject: [Internet Policy] Finland is winning the war on fake news
> To: ISOC Internet Policy <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>
> 
> Sharing this good article from CNN on Finland’s approach to fake news:
> 
> https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/
> <https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/>
> 
> TL;DR: Finland has long been a target of Russian disinformation
> campaigns; it combines media literacy training with reliable media and
> regulation. Its defenses are so strong that Russia has turned to
> softer targets.
> 
> RB
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> Richard Bennett
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