Responses to Misinformation

Tully, Melissa

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“…describes this as a "securitization of 'fake news'" (p. 7), a trend found in numerous countries where fake news has rhetorically been placed on par with terrorism, wars, and pandemics Ghebreyesus, 2020;. Political leaders have actively used the securitisation of fake news to legitimise proposed and implemented laws in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Venezuela, Honduras, France, Hungary, and Russia (Human Rights Watch, 2021;Tully, 2022).…”

Section: Research On the Discursive Signification Of Fake Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While further research is still needed, it is important to highlight that emergent scholarship is exploring these pertinent topics in such far-flung locales as Germany , Austria (Egelhofer et al, 2022), South Africa (Wasserman, 2020), Kenya (Tully, 2022), Australia (Carson et al, 2021), Malaysia , Cambodia , Taiwan , and the US . This line of work shows that fake news is often mobilised with opposing meaning ascriptions as part of political struggles, in addition to being a "negatively charged buzzword" (Egelhofer & Lecheler, 2019, p. 105).…”

Section: Implications For Research Journalism and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Political bans on fake news can, in other words, easily be used to target and silence perceived opponents and critical journalists. Such solutions have become increasingly prominent in recent years; political leaders from across the world have limited freedom of speech under the pretext of stopping fake news in countries such as Kenya, the Philippines, Venezuela, Malaysia, Singapore, Hungary, and Russia (Human Rights Watch, 2021; Lim, 2020; Monsees, 2020; Neo, 2021;Tully, 2022). Human rights groups have called this a disaster for critical journalism and democratic development (Henley, 2018;Human Rights Watch, 2021;Lourdes, 2018;Reporters Without Borders, 2017a).…”

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confidence: 99%

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This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy

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Fake news has attracted significant global attention and contestation in recent years. This PhD thesis explores the explosive and oftentimes contradictory rise of fake news and dives into the discursive struggles around journalism, politics, digital media, and liberal democracy that have emerged in its wake. Through a series of interrelated publications – spanning more than five years of research – the thesis examines how and with what consequences journalistic and political actors articulate and dispute the very meaning of fake news. Through a careful and critical mapping of the discursive signification of fake news, the thesis does not only situate the issue in wider political and historical contexts; it also draws out and reflects upon its implications for the future of liberal democracies. Deploying detailed empirical investigations based on news content, textual analysis, and qualitative interviews, the thesis sheds light on discursive struggles around fake news within a number of distinct socio-political contexts. It dives into cases from the US and UK, where fake news first rose to prominence in 2016, as well as from Denmark, where fake news has increasingly become a topic of journalistic and political concern. Drawing on the ontological and conceptual framework of discourse theory, the thesis demonstrates how fake news has come to function as a floating signifier; it is a deeply political concept mobilised within conflicting hegemonic projects with fundamentally different forms of meaning. Having done so, the thesis goes on to show that fake news has not only become central in debates around lies and falsehoods but also for conflicting visions about what ‘politics,’ ‘journalism,’ and ‘liberal democracy’ fundamentally are and ought to be. Indeed, the core argument levelled in this thesis is that fake news has come to function as a prism through which wider struggles over liberal democracy and human co-habitation have become visible at a time of growing political instability. Taken together, the findings offered by the thesis contribute to the field of media and communication studies by addressing a pertinent gap regarding the discursive signification of fake news. Connecting the rise of fake news to structural transformations at the heart of both contemporary media landscapes and liberal democracy, the thesis moves beyond formalistic conceptions of fake news and into the highly conflictual terrain surrounding the concept.

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Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal

Matanji,

Tully,

Mudavadi

et al. 2024

African Journalism Studies

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Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal

Mudavadi,

Matanji,

Diop

et al. 2024

Journalism

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While misinformation is very prevalent in Africa, we have a limited understanding of how key stakeholders, such as journalists, fact-checkers, policy experts, and educators, perceive responses to misinformation to address its spread. Based on an analysis of 46 interviews with media professionals and other key stakeholders from Kenya and Senegal, we find divergent perceptions of what regulatory interventions are needed to slow the spread of misinformation in the two countries. In Kenya, stakeholders advocated for self-regulation rather than government intervention to curb misinformation, while in Senegal, they called for more government regulations to address its spread. Additionally, interviewees perceived regulatory approaches, such as proposed laws to address misinformation, as reactive solutions, often resulting from a specific incident in the country, and educational approaches, such as requiring media literacy education in schools, as sustainable solutions with potentially longer-term outcomes.

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Responses to Misinformation

Cited by 4 publications

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This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy

This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy

Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal

Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal

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