Tag: Fake news
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Åsa Wikforss – euphoric and terrified thinker
Ă…sa Wikforss is professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University. She is a writer and debater. And in 2019, she was elected as a member of a shriveled Swedish Academy, after the crisis and scandals of the previous years. In 2017, Ă…sa Wikforss wrote a celebrated book: Alternative Facts – about knowledge and its enemies.…
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Finns Party’s media strategy a cause for concern for experts
“Bad, racist, fascist, a Nazi,” she stated according to YLE, cataloguing words that have been used to label the Finns Party. Purra was elected for her second term at the helm of the party following an uncontested leadership election on Saturday. Members of the party have long criticised the media for coverage that they consider…
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Reuters appeals Turkey’s ban on online article
Washington/Ankara, Turkey – Reuters said this week it will appeal a move by Turkey to block access to more than 90 web links and social media posts that used reporting from the news agency. The ban relates to an article that said Swedish and US anti-corruption authorities were reviewing a complaint naming the Turkish president’s…
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The future of the Sámi people, Finland’s participation in the NATO nuclear weapons exercise and frostbite: Finland in the world press
It is part of the concerns of the Sami people, the indigenous people of Finland, because they are worried about the diminishing opportunities to gain more self-government in their ancestral lands. In Finland, the Sámi are represented by the Sámi Assembly (Sámediggi), a constitutionally recognized advisory body. However, the reform of the Sámi Assembly, which…
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Media Literacy Index: Bulgaria is the least able to resist fake news
Bulgaria is the country in the European Union most unable to withstand the negative effects of fake news and most vulnerable in the fight against it. This shows the Media Literacy Index for 2022, prepared in the framework of the European Policy Initiative (EuPI) of the Open Society Institute – Sofia, and assesses the potential…
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Disinformation campaigns target Finnish speakers of foreign languages, NATO fears
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many news outlets – including BBC and Caretaker – have reported that targeted disinformation campaigns and rumors have flooded online spaces. In response, platforms like TikTok and Twitter have enhanced efforts to counter the Russian disinformation that has spread on their sites. At the same time, research by Ylen’s…
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Election: a global ranking ranks the United States as the weakest among liberal democracies
Defending democracy has suddenly become one of the central challenges of our time. The land war in Ukraine considered general a front line between autocratic rule and democratic freedom. The United States continues to absorb the meaning of the riot that took place on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to overthrow the results of…
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Misinformation, censorship, trigger the global retreat of press freedom
Washington – Following the Kremlin’s example, a global increase in disinformation and propaganda has a catastrophic effect on independent news around the world, a new report shows. In its 2022 The World Press Freedom Index was released on TuesdayThe Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has contributed enormously to the…
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Spreading fake news incites divisions, global tensions: RSF
Unregulated online content has spread disinformation and propaganda that has widened political divisions around the world, aroused international tensions and even contributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an annual report by Reporters Without Borders. More commonly known by its French acronym RSF, Reporters Without Borders warned that democratic societies are becoming increasingly fragmented…
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Monday’s newspapers: No to NATO, Russian fake news, May Day snow
The most read article in Helsingin Sanomat on Monday morning is a to interview With the Member of the Left Alliance Anna Kontulaone of only 11 of Finland’s 200 legislators who have publicly stated that they do not support NATO’s application to join NATO. Why not, HS asks. Membership does not necessarily increase Finland’s security,…
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Germany tightens conditions for migrants
The expelled person no longer needs to be able to meet the subsistence level in the home German courts are no longer obliged to ensure that a deported person who is sent home can support himself in a sustainable way there, the federal administrative court ruled on Thursday. The verdict, handed down in Leipzig, changed…
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Spotify announces Russia’s exit day
The Swedish audio streaming service will not be available from next Monday Russians will not be able to use Spotify from next Monday, the Swedish audio streaming service announced on Thursday. The impending withdrawal was not revealed until the end of March, with a new law on fake news cited as the cause. Users from…
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Spotify sets a deadline for Russia
The Swedish audio streaming service will not be available from next Monday Russians will not be able to use Spotify from next Monday, the Swedish audio streaming service announced on Thursday. The impending withdrawal from the nation was first announced by Spotify at the end of March, with Russia’s law on fake news cited as…
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The President of Ukraine “gives up” – so the truth is bent by fake videos
Around the first of April, many media outlets usually sneak an April Fool’s joke into their reporting, something that has begun to feel increasingly difficult to do in view of accusations of fake news in recent years. And not least now during the propaganda war that goes hand in hand with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.…
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Spotify will warn of fake news about Covid
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The Kremlin reveals how it will respond to NATO’s deployments to Ukraine
Moscow considers talks with US and NATO “failed” ,? but there is no talk of military action, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia thinks it would be? Madness? to start a war on Ukraine, but does not rule out taking? countermeasures? to the NATO deployments if security negotiations fail and its concerns are left…
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The Kremlin tells CNN about the possibility of deploying weapons to Ukraine
Moscow considers talks with US and NATO “failed” ,? but there is no talk of military action, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia has no plans to attack Ukraine, but could not say it would never deploy weapons in its large neighbor to the south, the Kremlin has told CNN, adding that Moscow is…
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Europe worries Poland could follow Britain and leave EU
WARSAW, Poland: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has posed an unmatched challenge to one of the fundamental principles of law of the European Union (EU), which has escalated his government’s dispute with Brussels and caused fears of a “Polexit”. The Polish Constitutional Court ruled at the end of last week that important articles in one…
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The Nobel Peace Prize goes to two journalists from Russia and the Philippines
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a prerequisite for democracy and lasting peace. The committee announced the winner this afternoon. Ressa and Muratov receive the Peace Prize for their courageous struggle…
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Danish News National Round-Up: Minister of Culture resigns after running out of steam
Minister of Culture and Church Affairs Joy Mogensen has resigned – not only from her position in the cabinet, but entirely politics, as she does not want to seek re-election to the Folketing. The 41-year-old, who was recently unable to attend the Olympics in Tokyo because she is pregnant, may one day return as a…
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Cultural background: Almost half of Danes worry that their perspectives are skewed by ‘fake news’
A new report from the Ministry of Culture called ‘Media trust, fake news and fact-checking’ shows that 47 percent of the Danish population is suspicious that ‘fake news’ from various sources shoots their worldview. In fact, 60 percent believe that some Danish media deliberately deliver fake news. Conversely, other figures in the report show a…
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Denmark is number one for internet use among the elderly in the EU
In some parts of the world, the digital divide is a real problem in society, causing many older people to be cut off from opportunities due to their lack of access to and know-how regarding the internet. But this is not the case in Denmark and the other Nordic countries, where the elderly have pushed…
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Hong Kong considers law against ‘fake news’
Hong Kong Prime Minister Carrie Lam has said she is concerned about what she calls a growing trend of “misleading information, hatred and lies” and that a law against so-called “fake news” is under investigation. Critics say a potential law risks further curtailing freedom of the press in Hong Kong. Keith Richburg, chairman of the…
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Journalists in Europe face a growing threat of violence during a pandemic
Despite the most favorable conditions for journalism, violence in Europe has steadily increased, including the assassination of a high-profile journalist in Greece last week. Greece was one of the lowest EU countries in the index with 70, as well as Malta (81), Hungary (92) and Bulgaria (112). According to the report, freedom of the press…
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FACTS: Tradition with April Fools warns of spring
* It happened that you fooled or tricked someone into running April, which means running a errand, picking up or looking at something that did not exist. * April Fool’s Day is closely linked with spring and a new year. – Spring is also a form of new year. Nature’s cycle starts all over again,…
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Hemp; M faces opposition in China for refusing to buy Xinjiang cotton
Peking [China]March 25 (ANI): The Swedish multinational clothing retailer HM is facing a backlash in China for refusing to buy cotton production in Xinjiang, where the communist government is doing atrocities against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities; called “genocide” by several countries. Chinese mainland media reported that HM products were removed from all major Chinese…
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The head of infection control: Most people long to get vaccinated
In Sweden, many want to get vaccinated, but the willingness to vaccinate in the EU and the rest of the world is also increasing according to the European Agency for Communicable Disease Control, ECDC. According to the ECDC, vaccination resistance is a big issue that they are following closely, but the situation is better than…
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National Round-Up: Danes quickly support the proposal to offer more support to surviving parents of infants
A citizen’s proposal to provide more assistance to parents whose infants are dying has collected 60,000 signatures in just three days, meaning it will be heard by Parliament. Louise Holm Jacobsen and Daniel Hugo Sørensen, whose eight-month-old daughter died in an accident in November, formulated the proposal. High death toll The death rate among infants…
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From Iceland – As Icelandic Poles condemn riots in the Capitol, US Embassy and Ambassador anything but silent
As Icelandic politicians across the political spectrum condemned yesterday revolt against the US Congress, both the US Embassy and Jeffrey Ross Gunter, the US Ambassador, have so far been anything but silent. Icelandic politicians from KatrĂn JakobsdĂłttir, the Prime Minister, who is also the chairman of the Left-Green Party, as well as conservative politicians such…
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Fake Queen Elizabeth gives Christmas speech
Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas speech is traditionally broadcast on the British television channels BBC and ITV on Christmas Day, and the competing channel Channel 4 is then in the habit of giving its viewers an alternative Christmas speech from a current person or persons. This year, the channel has chosen an AI-manipulated version by the queen…
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The Foreign Chronicle
Louisville, Tuesday. You have heard it before in these times, but now it comes again, some thoughts on mouthwash. It is still something that you can not really stop thinking about as a Swede out in other places in the world right now. I’m in the United States. During the weekend here, the news has…
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Half of Danes will receive coronavina vaccine
Half of Danes are completely sure that they will receive an approved coronavina vaccine if the health authorities recommend it. It shows a new report from Aarhus University. At the same time, 31 percent answer that they partially agree that they will follow the advice of the health authorities if they recommend a vaccine. –…
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Unwanted email from the White House to form a new art exhibition
For three years, independent MP Uffe Elbæk, the former leader of the Alternative, has kept an overview of the flow of e-mails he has received from the Trump administration. Now with over a thousand, Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) has brought them together in a new exhibition opening this month that explores American politics through an inbox…
