Fake News in Context: Truth and Untruths

Lightweight and Simplified Truth as a Kind of Distortion of Social-Everyday Reality

“…Fake news, unreliable information has become one of the characteristic features of modern mass media. It does not have to prove it anymore [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Rather need to join fair questions L Corbin: "Do not you find it unfair that in this new, complex eco-system of the new media, news organizations like the BBC, putting an effort into making sure that the piece of information is accurate, can lose to mere individuals, handsome men (or women) with good presentation, making people believe in something which is just not right?…”

“…Leading signs of fake news: retreating from facts, hiding the truth; emphasis on rumors, speculation, links to unreliable, anonymous sources; non-personalized experts; the desire not to focus on the consequences of events; purposeful used of negative strong emotions; aggressiveness of tone, style of presentation; escalation of threats. Fake news has become a threat in itself "…not only to the integrity of political debate, but also to the broader health of society in general" ( [13], p. 464). Furthermore: "On its own, this is a serious concern, but perhaps the most serious concern is the ability of Fake News to create an artificial worldview for specific groups of citizens that systematically distorts reality.…”

“…Furthermore: "On its own, this is a serious concern, but perhaps the most serious concern is the ability of Fake News to create an artificial worldview for specific groups of citizens that systematically distorts reality. There have been several recent examples where precisely this kind of distortion has led to devastating consequences" ( [13], p. 466).…”

“…To manage them, to be able to gently, without violence, change their ideological and semantic content, values -means to have complete control over modern society. This kind of news about the "simple" private sphere of life is capable of no less creating an artificial worldview, as well as fake news from the sphere of politics, as Alibašić and Rose wrote about [13]. However, if the news about political, socio-economic events is perceived by an ordinary person as something external, as attempts to invade his private space, the desire to impose someone else's opinion, to deceive, then with news about "simple" spheres of life, the situation is different.…”

The impact of post-truth politics as a hybrid information influence on the status of international and national security: the attributes of interpretation and the search for counteraction mechanisms

“…There were manifestations of post-truth (falsehood, bullshit, rumours and plagiarism etc.) earlier in politics (Alibašić & Rose, 2019), today they are perceived as usual even in the states with stable democratic regimes. Therefore, it changes the regular lines of political divisions, which are no longer associated only with certain 'traditional' ideologies, political programmes and their institutional carriers, as with the struggle between the supporters of facts and falsehoods as the new quasi-ideologies (Al-Rodhan, 2017).…”