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<div>Interesting timeline: <br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Jan 2016:</b> Finland calls in US experts "<span>to advise officials on how to recognize fake news, understand why it goes viral and develop strategies to fight it".</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Dec 2016: </b>Fake news suspected to have materially influenced US elections.</div><div><br></div><div>This reminds me of at least one African proverb:<i> "Mganga hajigangi" </i><span>(literally translates to "doctor cannot treat self").</span><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>-------------<br></i></div><br><div>Perhaps the real question is not "what should we do to eliminate fake news?" but rather "why do we have fake news?".. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Good evening,</div><div>Patrick.</div><div><br></div><div>Patrick A. M. Maina</div><div>[Cross-domain Innovator | Independent Public Policy Analyst - Indigenous Innovations]<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 10:45:33 AM GMT+3, Alex Comninos via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><div>Thanks for sharing Barrack,<div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"></div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985">This looks very interesting.<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"></div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985">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"</div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"></div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><a shape="rect" class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" href="https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/</a></div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"></div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985">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.</div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"></div><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><div><blockquote class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" type="cite"><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985">On 20 May 2019, at 02:32, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a shape="rect" class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985"><div class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985">Listers,<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Might be of interest to some.<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Regards<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">From: Richard Bennett <<a shape="rect" class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">richard@bennett.com</a>><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 14:48:29 -0600<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Subject: [Internet Policy] Finland is winning the war on fake news<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">To: ISOC Internet Policy <<a shape="rect" class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Sharing this good article from CNN on Finland’s approach to fake news:<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><a shape="rect" class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/</a><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">TL;DR: Finland has long been a target of Russian disinformation<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">campaigns; it combines media literacy training with reliable media and<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">regulation. Its defenses are so strong that Russia has turned to<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">softer targets.<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">RB<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">—<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Richard Bennett<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">High Tech Forum <http://hightechforum.org/> Founder<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Internet Policy Consultant<br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none"><br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">-- <br class="ydp4fc5dfb8yiv3584963985" clear="none">Barrack O. 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