<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for sharing Barrack,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This looks very interesting.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 May 2019, at 02:32, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Listers,<br class=""><br class="">Might be of interest to some.<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>><br class="">Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 14:48:29 -0600<br class="">Subject: [Internet Policy] Finland is winning the war on fake news<br class="">To: ISOC Internet Policy <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" class="">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br class=""><br class="">Sharing this good article from CNN on Finland’s approach to fake news:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/" class="">https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/</a><br class=""><https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/><br class=""><br class="">TL;DR: Finland has long been a target of Russian disinformation<br class="">campaigns; it combines media literacy training with reliable media and<br class="">regulation. Its defenses are so strong that Russia has turned to<br class="">softer targets.<br class=""><br class="">RB<br class="">—<br class="">Richard Bennett<br class="">High Tech Forum <http://hightechforum.org/> Founder<br class="">Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator<br class=""><br class="">Internet Policy Consultant<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Barrack O. Otieno<br class="">+254721325277<br class="">+254733206359<br class="">Skype: barrack.otieno<br class="">PGP ID: 0x2611D86A<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">kictanet mailing list<br class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br class="">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br class="">Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet<br class="">Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/<br class=""><br class="">Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/alex.comninos%40gmail.com<br class=""><br class="">The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.<br class=""><br class="">KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>