Fake news are just the tip of the iceberg
In a newly published study, Julien Labarre, PhD establishes the notion of epistemic vulnerability: the crisis of information characterized by the distorted authority and loss of value of political information.
Citizens don’t actually need to be exposed to disinformation to experience its harms.
Some citizens believe they are hardly ever exposed to disinformation. Others feel like they can’t be fooled by false claims. The reality is that many of us can’t recognize false claims or can’t tell when we’re being exposed.
And for many, just knowing that much of the information in circulation is false is enough to corrode their trust in the professional media and blur the frontier between what’s evidently true and what’s blatantly false.
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