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Who are these Fake Fact-Checkers? Names from the University of Canberra’s News & Media Centre

From Ursula Edgington, PhD

A Case-Study from Australia in how the public is manipulated by ‘trusted news sources’

My Substack colleague

Michael Ginsburg brought a new Oz publication to my attention that was reported in The Conversation with an intriguing claim:

“97% of Australians have limited skills to verify information online”

The author of this nauseating piece of propaganda, is Joel Abrams. He also wrote this patronising piece of bs called “A recipe for trustworthy journalism” which included this not-to -be-missed video (1m 40 secs) where a woman in a kitchen tries to promote the metaphor of cooking-up a ‘news’ article by dumbing-down its ingredients…

READ AT THE LINK