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Fake News: Possibility of Identification in Post-Truth Media Ecology System

Publication date: 18.10.2019

Media Management, 2019, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 133-142

https://doi.org/10.4467/23540214ZM.19.009.11120

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Jan Kreft
Gdańsk University of Technology
, Poland
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Monika Hapek
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
, Poland
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Fake News: Possibility of Identification in Post-Truth Media Ecology System

Abstract

The main aim of the article is identification of the attitudes towards the processes of identification and verification of fake news in the environment of digital media. The subject of the research refers to the users’ attitudes towards fake news. As indicated by the research, the attitudes towards fake news are not unambiguous. About 2/3 of the respondents claim that they are not able to distinguish fake news from true information; only every twelfth respondent declares that they know tools for verification of information, although the research survey has been carried out among students of media management, journalism and marketing – students who deal with information in social media.

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Information: Media Management, 2019, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 133-142

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-8424

Jan Kreft
Gdańsk University of Technology
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-8424 Orcid
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Gdańsk University of Technology
Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-8232

Monika Hapek
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-8232 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Poland

Published at: 18.10.2019

Article status: Open

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