Archive for June 12th, 2017

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12/06/2017

Media in a ‘Post-Factual’ Age – Do Social Media Have Monopoly on Fake News?

Human Wrongs Watch

By George Perendia*

8 June 2017 (Wall Street International)* – I have recently seen some of the emails circulating French social networks, some more some less verifiable and believable, receivers asking for opinions on their veracity, themselves being spawned and confused by many such leading opinions and claims aimed at bending and priming the readers’ electoral decisions. Like in many of post-modern novels, the gaps between known fact were filled-up by plausible but damning fictitious stories aiming to be alternative reality.

 

Do social media have monopoly on fake news?
Do social media have monopoly on fake news? | Image reproduced  from Wall Street International

 

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12/06/2017

This Is the Nation of 170 Million Enslaved Children

Human Wrongs Watch

ROME, Jun 12 2017 (IPS) – Globally over 1.5 billion people live in countries that are affected by conflict, violence and fragility. Meantime, around 200 million people are affected by disasters every year—a third of them are children. And a significant proportion of the 168 million children engaged in child labour live in areas affected by conflict and disaster. These are the facts. Up to you to reflect on the immediate future of humankind.

Credit: UN News Centre

Credit: UN News Centre

Conflicts and disasters have a devastating impact on people’s lives, the United Nations reminds.

“They kill, maim, injure, force people to flee their homes, destroy livelihoods, push people into poverty and starvation and trap people in situations where their basic human rights are violated.”

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