Exploring the threat of fake news: Facts, opinions, and judgement (Record no. 527010)
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| Personal name | Baron, Ilan Zvi and Shalom, Piki Ish |
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| Title | Exploring the threat of fake news: Facts, opinions, and judgement |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Political Research Quarterly |
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| Extent | 77(2), Jun, 2024: p.620-632 |
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| Summary, etc | This article explores how fake news, variously described as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and post-truth threatens our pluralistic democratic life. We ask, how does fake news function in constructing a world of meaning that destabilises the conditions under which we are able to render valid political judgements in democratic life? Using the 1992 R v Zundel Supreme Court Case from Canada to explore the free speech question, and Hannah Arendt’s distinction between fact and opinion, we argue that fake news uses the malleability of language to displace fact with opinion. This displacement threatens democracy in two ways. First, fake news functions by deploying language in such a way that it is built on refuting its own ability to produce factual knowledge, and in the process the world becomes one of opinion treated axiomatically. Second, as a consequence, it renders judgement impossible because the only information that counts is opinion, whereas judgement corresponds to the public character of factual knowledge. This displacement produces a pseudo-reality where we can imagine that only people like us live here, that is, people who share our own opinions. This is a world that Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas might characterise as thoughtless.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129241234839 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fake news—Democracy, Misinformation—Political impact, Disinformation—Democratic discourse, Malinformation—Social consequences, Post-truth politics—Democracy, Political judgement—Media influence, Free speech—Canada—R v Zundel, Fact vs opinion—Hannah Arendt, Language—Manipulation—Politics, Opinion formation—Media effects, Democratic pluralism—Threats, Thoughtlessness—Hans Jonas, Media ethics—Democracy, Information disorder—Political theory, Public discourse—Truth and opinion, Cognitive bias—Political communication, Epistemology—Fake news, Political philosophy—Information integrity, News media—Credibility crisis, Truth—Democratic society |
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| Main entry heading | Political Research Quarterly |
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| Subject DIP | FAKE NEWS |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2024-07-29 | 77(2), Jun, 2024: p.620-632 | AR132475 | 2024-07-29 | Articles |