{"id":2530,"date":"2019-04-17T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=2530"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:05:07","slug":"ix-xoghol-il-boghod-mill-ufficcju-hajja-ta-solitudni-jew-l-ahjar-bilanc-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/ix-xoghol-il-boghod-mill-ufficcju-hajja-ta-solitudni-jew-l-ahjar-bilanc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shielding EP elections from fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T<\/span>he upcoming European election<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>are<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>around the corner<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Unfortunately, f<\/span>ake\u00a0<\/span>news can<\/span>\u00a0easily influence the election process<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>facilitating<\/span>\u00a0the spread of misinformation to voters. It\u00a0<\/span>could be construed\u00a0<\/span>as a source of propaganda and sometimes it is hard to tell\u00a0<\/span>what\u00a0<\/span>is true\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0<\/span>false<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Leading s<\/span>earch\u00a0<\/span>engines and social media\u00a0<\/span>channels<\/span>\u00a0have been preparing to fight fake news\u00a0<\/span>spread through the internet<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rise of populism and the Brexit negotiations have created a rather polarised political scene, leading to\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0campaigning of this election<\/span>\u00a0to become tense<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0The<\/span>\u00a0official campai<\/span>g<\/span>n of this election,<\/span>\u00a0\u2018<\/span>thistimeimv<\/span>oting<\/span>\u2019<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>aimed at<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>stating the facts\u00a0<\/span>to people to\u00a0<\/span>encourage\u00a0<\/span>democratic\u00a0<\/span>engagement and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>spread awareness to citizen<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in a bid\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>help them\u00a0<\/span>make\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>n informed decision when voting.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, no one has full control\u00a0<\/span>over<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the spread of fake news and it is up to the individual to verify the source of information\u00a0<\/span>when coming across a\u00a0<\/span>news<\/span>\u00a0item<\/span>. Solutions to combating fake news include collaboration of social media sites and journalists to verify the information before spreading\u00a0<\/span>it<\/span>, along with<\/span>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>creation of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>software<\/span>\u00a0that can\u00a0<\/span>detect misinformation.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The upcoming European elections\u00a0are\u00a0around the corner.\u00a0Unfortunately, fake\u00a0news can\u00a0easily influence the election process,\u00a0facilitating\u00a0the spread of misinformation to voters. It\u00a0could be construed\u00a0as a source of propaganda and sometimes it is hard to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[107],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2530\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}