January 9, 2018 •
Comment, Ethics and Quality, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In this era of fake news and conspiracy theories, the attention economy is becoming a disinformation economy, argues Stephan Russ-Mohl. The reported use of internet trolls and social bots in the German election was a recent example of how...
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October 20, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The warning signs have been ignored for a long time: news media are endangered and are losing ground against propagandists in the digital world. Well before Pegida aficionados started to chant “Lügenpresse” (“lying press”) in...
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