[Air-L] Fake News

[MC Cambre]

In the form of an infographic A "decent" breakdown of real vs fake news,
seems useful as a lecture starting point
http://imgur.com/7xHaUXf


On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:28 PM, David Stodolsky <dss at secureid.net> wrote:

>
> > On 14 Dec 2016, at 09.31, Johan Dam Farkas <jjfs at itu.dk> wrote:
> >
> > Highly interesting thread.
>
> I have just received the newsletter of the Danish SOS Against Racism
> association.
> Within the last week, two major newspapers in Denmark have published
> “false news.”
> A front page headline in Politiken proclaimed that the Danish Medical
> Society supported a law against male circumcision.
> In fact, the DK Medical Society explicitly stated they were against such a
> law.
> “Religious violence against children” was the headline of an editorial
> statement in Jyllands-posten.
> This made a series of false claims,
> in particular that the Danish Somali Society had opposed a law passed
> earlier against cutting females when, in fact, they were in favor of the
> law.
>
> While “false news” typically refers to obviously false claims easily
> debunked by looking at mainstream sources,
> this type of disinformation is mainstream in Denmark.
> The world's first professor of Sexual Health Epidemiology was appointed in
> Denmark recently.
> This individual is promoting sexual disfunction and disease.
> A Scientific Dishonesty Complaint against him and others can be seen here:
>
> http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2015/01/scientific-dishonesty-
> complaint-against.html
>
> For years, I could not understand why the findings of UNAIDS, WHO, CDC,
> etc. were being undermined in Denmark.
> I have concluded that the medical sexology elite in Denmark sees cultural
> genocide of Muslims (and Jews) as desirable.
> Further, the Danish Planned Parenthood Association is being paid by the
> Government to carry out an educational program incorporating cultural
> imperialism in Uganda,
> which is likely to cause deaths due to increasing the spread of HIV there.
> Repeated statements in the press that "Muslims mutilate babies” appears to
> be a key propaganda element used to support Danish military interventions
> in Muslim countries.
>
> I was planning to write all this up as a couple of articles at some point,
> but it has been low priority since it isn’t the mainline in my research.
> If anyone would like to collaborate on this issue, let me know.
>
>
> dss
>
> David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
> dss at socialinformatics.org          Skype/Twitter: davidstodolsky
>
>
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*Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montreal
Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research Fellow Affiliate of
Concordia University - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
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