"You need a human to tell you, this is faked" - UNESCO Difference Day panelist
by ECPMF staff
World Press Freedom Day is coming around again on 3 May, and all the signs are that the world is getting less free. So the related events in Brussels have an added urgency in 2017.
Actual humans are still the best bet for fact-checking. (Photo and art: ECPMF)
As well as obvious new political threats – for example in Macedonia, Hungary and Turkey – Europe's journalists also face shadowy forces who are fabricating fake news and poisoning public discourse with hate speech.
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom is working to meet these challenges. In the framework of the…