The article discusses the use of social media in reconnecting with old friends and family members which highlights the rise of false news and fake stories epidemic in social media in 2016. Evaluating true and false information on the Internet is noted to be an issue for general public as well as students who were found to have trouble in telling real news from fake news. Comments from journalis…
The last years have witnessed specialized websites in checking fake news to limit its spread and then raise awareness of its danger. Arab press has no clear role to face the fake news, except for a few media institutions as Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, which has realized the danger of this phenomenon that invade the world because of its easy circulation through social networks such as Facebook,…
Social media can be defined as a class of online interchange channels dedicated to group-based information, content-sharing, connection, and association (Asur and Huberman, 2010). Several prominent social networking venues include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Media practitioners, in particularly news editors, have taken these platforms to gather, report and share stories to their audience.…
In recent years there has been a growing global debate on fake news, technically as "disinformation" and in recent months the expression "infodemic" coined by the WHO due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What these two terms have in common - and the object of this study - is the relationship they have with freedom of expression and the right to information, these fundamental and corollary rights o…
The great openness witnessed by the Algerian media space, thanks to the wide spread of new media for information and communication, and their use by citizen journalists, contributed to a large flow of media contents through social networks whose creators try to cover events and convey the daily concerns of citizens. Television channels adopt these news stories, broadcast them and deal w…
Social media networks have given citizen journalists the opportunity to participate in the production and dissemination of news stories in various areas of life. That is why our paper came to shed light on the concept of fake news, its types, areas of dissemination, its effects, and the strategy used to confront it and reduce its spread in these social networks. This study reached the m…