Study sheds light on scourge of "fake" news in Africa
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 10:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Concerns about "fake news" have dominated discussions about the relationship between the media and politics in the developed world in recent years. The extraordinary amount of attention paid in scholarship and in public debates to questions around truth, veracity and deception can be connected to the role of "fake news" in the 2016 US presidential election, and US President Donald Trump's use of the term to dismiss his critics.