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Understanding Fake News
A free course on the uses, spread, effects, and responses to digital false news, written for a broad audience.
- Format
- 100% online and self-paced
- Audience
- General public
- Workload
- Recorded content
- Certificate
- Certificate through Sympla
Overview
Designed by INCT.DD, this course shares high-quality content on fake news, a central issue for understanding contemporary public debate. It addresses common imprecision around the topic and offers accessible explanations for a broad audience.
Structure
- Introduction
- What are fake news?
- The most frequent questions about the nature, effects, and control of digital false news
- The spread of fake news in digital environments: virality, networks, and cross-platform distribution
- Fake-news formats and languages in digital culture
- The fake-news industry: production, financing, and distribution
- Uses and effects of fake news in elections
- Uses and effects of fake news during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Fake news as harassment and reputational assassination in politics
- Responding to fake news I: fact-checking agencies
- Responding to fake news II: what can journalism do?
- Responding to fake news III: to regulate or not to regulate?
- Responding to fake news IV: technological solutions