Investigating the Source and Strategies Adopted by Mainstream Media in Combating Fake News in the Kingdom of Eswatini

Lunga, Carolyne M.; Mthembu, Maxwell Vusumuzi

doi:10.1080/23743670.2019.1664606

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“…It is for this reason that the population will have to develop new tools to detect the quality or authenticity of information. Likewise, it is not appropriate to continue to consider Facebook as an agency that disseminates news because that is not the purpose for which it was conceived (Melchior, & Oliveira, 2021), (Idrees, et al, 2019) and (Lunga, & Mthembu, 2020).…”

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The spread of fake news on Facebook is a reality. This behavior is aimed at affecting reputation and generating distrust towards a certain person or on a specific topic. A bibliometric study of the scientific production in Scopus on Fake News on Facebook in the period 2013-2023 was carried out. The results showed that fake news is promoted in political issues to generate instability and in health issues to generate confusion and panic in the population. It was concluded that citizens must develop critical thinking to question the validity of news sources. Similarly, anonymity and misinformation are a natural part of society.

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“…Some of the studies that have been done on the topic have to do with how the term 'fake news' is used as a weapon against the media and democracy (Lee 2019;Bechmann and O'Loughlin 2020, 11;Chenzi 2020, 1;Egelhofer and Lecheler 2019) and how concern about fake news can create moral panic, fear, and hatred (Bratich 2020, 1;Samanga 2019;Oneko 2019). Others have studied the relationship between fake news and propaganda, examining why and how people share fake news (Maweu 2020;Marwick 2018, 477;Ncube 2019), while others still have focused their efforts on verifying content, and on detecting and preventing the spread of misinformation (Cheruiyot and Ferrer-Conill 2018, 964;Lunga and Mthembu 2019;Aldwairi and Alwahedi 2018;Molina et al 2021).…”

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'We Still Living': The Digital Media and Fake-talk around COVID-19 in Tanzania

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In Tanzania, as COVID-19 emerged and became a pandemic, many claims about the fakeness of virus-related news began to appear in the digital media. These claims, or what I refer to as ‘fake-talk’, served to expose and discredit ostensibly false information and distinguish it from real news. However, I suggest that these instances of ‘fake-talk’ have a deeper sociopolitical meaning. Analysing posts collected between August 2020 and May 2022, I argue that such instances are performative acts of citizenship, whereby Tanzanians enacted and embodied ‘good’ citizenship when ‘fake news’ appeared to criticise their country and its leaders. This fake-talk, the paper shows, follows a pattern in Africa of criticising Western science and medicine, and can therefore be understood as an example of a specific form of postcolonial citizenship. Additionally, the paper reveals that claims about fakeness do not necessarily discredit the entities referred to as ‘fake’. Instead, in the very process of decrying something as ‘fake’, fake-talk can create a spectacle. Further attention still may be directed to it when fake-talk gives rise to moral and legal concerns that require intervention.

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Disinformation in the Global South

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Investigating the Source and Strategies Adopted by Mainstream Media in Combating Fake News in the Kingdom of Eswatini

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

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'We Still Living': The Digital Media and Fake-talk around COVID-19 in Tanzania

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