AMMAN: It’s not often these days that the Arab states can claim a world-class innovation ahead of the West. But when it comes to Fake News, we had it way before they did.
Not just fake news, but fake policies, fake constitutions, fake laws, fake traditions, fake religious justification for violence and suppression of women. Fake budgets and fake jobs.
In this region, many of us know fake when we see it. It’s built into our DNA and into the foundations of our societies. But very few of us, citizens or journalists, are prepared to fight it. The cost is too high and the effort too time consuming.
To say that social media have worked against us is an understatement. Our private communications have been hacked and used against us by political authorities, and the truth has become a quiet, uninspiring voice in a changing world where extremes shout. The filters of accuracy and fairness are harder to apply.
Victims of bad journalism
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