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The Media Show: How to combat fake news?

20/02/2019

How to combat fake news?

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, How to combat fake news?

The DCMS Select Committee releases its report on fake news and disinformation

The Culture Select Committee’s final report into fake news and disinformation has heavily criticised the practices of tech firms like Facebook. Amol Rajan discusses its findings with Labour MP and member of the the Select Committee, Ian Lucas, Dex Torricke-Barton, former executive at both Google and Facebook and Stephen Lepitak, Editor of the tech and marketing website The Drum. 

Plus several senior French journalists have been suspended for allegedly coordinating online harassment of female journalists through a private Facebook group. We talk to the editor of La Liberation and French journalist Agnes Poirier. 

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Editor - Maire Devine

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