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Or Not to Believe Technology giant Google is offering funds to digital media houses via its Google Digital News Initiative Fund. Parliamentary Secretary Silvio Schembri spoke to Giselle Borg Olivier about this latest proposal, and what the availability of this fund could mean for news publishers, especially in today’s world of ‘fake news’.
A Eurobarometer survey a few weeks ago presented some disturbing news: 86% of the Maltese respondents
This distortion ranged from flat-out
And what is worse, this is by
Apart from the number of those who
consider that distorted news is a
lies to twisting the facts of what was
no means a uniquely Maltese
mistrust the news, another worrying
problem in Malta.
actually happening in the country.
phenomenon: the EU average of
aspect that emerged from the report
Only 1% of those contacted for
those who feel that news is distorted
was the frequency of it: more than half
the survey said that incorrect news
was 85%.
of the Maltese said they encountered
reporting was “definitely” not a
distorted news at least every week, and
problem.
nearly a third said they came across incorrect news every day.
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