THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAKE NEWS AND NEW MEDIA IN THE POST-TRUTH PHENOMENON
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAKE NEWS AND NEW MEDIA IN THE POST-TRUTH PHENOMENON

Summary/Abstract: To understand the relationship between politics, new media, and post-truth the evolution of internet was presented. It was shown how this evolution directly affected the traditional media, not only in consumption levels but also affected the role of this media as a political platform, platform that was taken by the internet and social networks thanks to the horizontality brought by web 2.0. Even though new media has been used to educate and motivate voters, it has also been used to spread false information to the general public. This is because there are not enough filters or resources available to verify the information that is contained in them, which helps to facilitate the spread of post-truth speech. Post-truth has been extensively discussed and studied by academics, especially in relation to the rise of digital media. In the cases of the Trump Presidency and the Brexit, several studies on the presence and strategies of post-truth in new media have taken place. These electoral events have served as the impetus for the investigation into this phenomenon. The objective of this line of inquiry is to gain an understanding of what "post-truth" is, how it functions, and the reasons why "new media" provide the ideal environment for its dissemination.

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