Fake News, Misinformation and Finding the Truth: Find Real News
This research guide is designed to help students, faculty, and staff navigate an information ecosystem that includes misinformation, fake news, and lies.
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This handbook seeks to serve as an internationally-relevant model curriculum, open to adoption or adaptation, which responds to the emerging global
problem of disinformation that confronts societies in general, and journalism in
particular. It avoids assuming that the term ‘fake news’ has a straightforward or commonly understood meaning. This is because ‘news’ means verifiable information in the public interest, and information that does not meet these standards does not deserve the label
of news. In this sense then, ‘fake news’ is an oxymoron which lends itself to undermining the credibility of information which does indeed meet the threshold of verifiability and public interest – i.e. real news.
