{"id":40258,"date":"2018-11-08T06:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40258"},"modified":"2018-11-08T06:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:43:43","slug":"the-uk-government-is-banning-the-fake-news-label-to-facilitate-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40258","title":{"rendered":"The UK Government Is Banning The \u201cFake News\u201d Label To Facilitate Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK Government Is Banning The \u201cFake News\u201d Label To Facilitate Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n

The UK is banning the term \u201cfake news\u201d in official documents.<\/p>\n

The motivation behind this move is that the government thinks that the word is too broad and is urging people to employ more specific phrases such as \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cmisinformation\u201d instead. This isn\u2019t just due to some bureaucrats\u2019 personal preferences, however, but because the state plans to more effectively wage information warfare and defend itself from the same, which is why it needs to be as precise as possible when it comes to tackling these tasks. The two suggested replacement terms practically mean the same thing though with the important difference being that disinformation is deliberately false while misinformation is unintentionally so, but both work to sow discord and division in societies and are much more easily weaponizable in today\u2019s interconnected age.<\/p>\n

One of the most important functions of any intelligence agency is to determine the intent of their targets or whoever pops up on their radar, whether they\u2019re an internal actor or an external one. In the context of fighting \u201cfake news\u201d, the UK is trying to improve the operational efficiency of its analysts by forcing them to discern between disinformation and misinformation instead of just lumping together whatever politically relevant narratives that they come across as \u201cfake news\u201d for convenience\u2019s sake. There\u2019s a big difference between a fabricated news story, an analysis that deceives its intended audience through the omission of key facts, and a poorly written op-ed that inadvertently confuses people more than it conveys whatever it is that the author wants to opine about.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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The UK Government Is Banning The \u201cFake News\u201d Label To Facilitate Censorship The UK is banning the term \u201cfake news\u201d in official documents. The motivation behind this move is that the government thinks that the word is too broad and is urging people to employ more specific phrases such as \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cmisinformation\u201d instead. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6108,120,2779,1426,16011,2080],"class_list":["post-40258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-andrew-korybko","tag-censorship","tag-fake-news","tag-misinformation","tag-oriental-review","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40259,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258\/revisions\/40259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}