President Donald Trump participated in installing the term Fake News, but also its concept, being himself accustomed to the exercise of disinformation.
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Polaris / Sipa & Montage 20 Minutes
“Fake news!
Said repeatedly by Donald Trump in 2016, then a candidate for the American presidency, the term has stuck, and the phenomenon has since taken on a whole new dimension.
Hoax, rumors ... False information is omnipresent online, relayed at high speed on social networks.
The Covid-19 crisis provides another good illustration of this, carrying its share of conspiracy theories and grandmother's remedies to guard against the coronavirus.
A team of researchers from the University of Caen is trying to understand all the inner workings, of their manufacture but also of their reception by Internet users, so that, together with the participants of their study, they can provide us with new weapons against fake news.
Conducted in collaboration with the general public, this study will take its first steps during the Turfu Festival, the meeting of participatory sciences, which takes place from October 5 to 10, 2020, in Caen.
To talk about it, we welcome to our microphone two of the researchers in charge of this project, Cécile Dolbeau-Bandin, and Patrice Georget, respectively lecturers in information and communication sciences, and in psychosociology.
They are accompanied by François Millet, co-organizer of the Turfu Festival, of which we are partners.
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