Bled panel on fake news notes democracy being undermined

Ingrid Brodnig, Austria's digital champion and author of the book Lies on the Internet, argued that blatantly false news were just the tip of the ice-berg of a "new ecosystem", whose dimensions were for instance revealed at the Constitutional change referendum in Italy last year, where five of the ten most successful media stories in the campaign proved "completely made up".

Gabriella Cseh, public policy director for CEE at Facebook, who argued that fake news is not a "Facebook problem" but a societal problem that needs to be tackled by all stakeholders, indicated the most popular social platform on the internet was going about the issue with a technical approach - for instance by identifying fake accounts - as opposed to by way of comparing content, as this could lead to the slippery slope of censorship.

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