Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Trending (27): BBC Verifies “Fake News” on Cameroon

Fiction does not mask itself as true. You know that  what you are getting is

the product of imagination, creativity and poetic license.

 But fake news is an imposter.

You think that it  is true but it isn't  -  and to complicate matters some folks can

designate whatever threatens their political agenda as fake news.

GE

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Trending (27): BBC Verifies "Fake News" on Cameroon

 

Is "fake news" not a methodology?
Why do we study fiction, which is fake?
TF



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On 9/29/18, 8:28 PM, "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of jumoyin@gmail.com> wrote:

    I couldn't agree more, sir. I have been equally alarmed at the recent tendency of partisan individuals in Nigeria, aping Donald Trump, to dismiss verifiable but uncomfortable realities put forward by (admittedly sometimes lazy) Nigerian media houses. When the news does not fit their own conclusions, it is fake! And by insisting on this perspective, we are made to doubt the very validity of our own existence and experiences, and to censor one another when responsible free expression should be expanding. Very dangerous trajectory.
   
    Let me share this, from Conversations:
   
    https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fthe-term-fake-news-is-doing-great-harm-100406&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cemeagwali%40ccsu.edu%7C4d235cd977d04caef84a08d626754270%7C2329c570b5804223803b427d800e81b6%7C0&amp;sdata=ddPcaJenizJCDeNqh1uMBzHNM05SQ1ismBWKlBKv0lE%3D&amp;reserved=0
   
    "An accusation that something is "fake news" seeks to be associated with striving to maintain truth, objectivity and critical thinking – but the effect of its repeated use is to undermine those very values. This undermining has several mechanisms: allegations of fakery sap public trust in legitimate news institutions and intellectual insults crowd out reasonable discourse."
   
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