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F<\/span>acebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has identified as fake news \u201cpromoters\u201d these three: spammers or unethical advertisers, state actors, and legitimate media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And legitimate media, he said, pose the \u201cmost challenging\u201d threat. Spammers may be removed although it could take time and diligence. State actors like Russia and other countries with their bot armies can be dealt with by the nations attacked such the U.S. which documented Russian meddling in its 2016 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though the credibility of legitimate media has been shrinking through the years, its journalists tend to be relied more than nameless, unidentified or disguised sources of news. That names of legitimate news organizations are mimicked under fictitious web sites to mislead readers shows that legitimate media still get some trust and attention. The definition of \u201cfake news\u201d by the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC), released last April, clearly distinguishes fabricated content from errors in reporting and editing. The first is fake news; the other is violation of standards. Fake news has become a \u201cmore nuanced\u201d issue. Claire Wardle, strategy and resident director of First Draft News, a non-profit research group, shuns the phrase from her conversation. She told CNN \u201cReliable Sources\u201d host Brian Stelter that she hates \u201cf*** news\u201d (articulating the asterisks). It has become weaponized, she said, referring to its use by politicians to any story they don\u2019t like. \u201cWe have to respond and just not use the word.\u201d A survey of the \u201cJournal of Media Ethics\u201d says many journalists in Cambodia believe it is all right to accept bribe. The thinking shared by most of the 29 journalists and 25 trainors and donors in media programs is that it\u2019s something like a quid pro quo: You get prayers and your house blessed by a monk, give him a small gift. Legitimate media as source of fake news PACHICO A. SEARESMay 5, 2018 Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has identified as fake news “promoters” these three: spammers or unethical advertisers, state actors, and legitimate media. And legitimate media, he said, pose the “most challenging” threat. Spammers may be removed although it could take time and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mimicked<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Legitimate journalists have names and faces, their organization with a specific location, and can be held accountable for what they print or broadcast.
That must be why Zuckerberg thinks that fake news originating from legitimate media can inflict more harm than those fabricated by apparently bogus sites. Charges of fake news against, say, just recently, Rappler and a \u201cManila Times\u201d columnist are more disturbing. The said news organizations are expected to enforce journalism norms, which is only hoped for and not seen in other news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDistinction<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
But the distinction doesn\u2019t mean legitimate media cannot be guilty of fake news. But to mistake one for the other, such as calling as fake news a story that didn\u2019t immediately include the side of a government agency is wrongful distortion of meaning.
CCPC, which started its work of defining \u201cfake news\u201d last year, has left open the search for meaning. The harm that \u201cmisinformation, disinformation and mal-information\u201d can inflict may be much worse and \u201ccomplicated\u201d than what many people fear about fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMore nuanced<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
That, she must know, is reaching for the sky. Word usage is decided by the greater number of people, not by a few who worry over its misuse or abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTo Cambodian journalists, it\u2019s like \u2018alms for monk prayers\u2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is not corruption,\u201d they said. Cited as reasons by respondents, according to a \u201cPhe Pnom Penh Post\u201d story, low pay ($200-$300 or about P10,000-P15,000 a month), poor working conditions and \u201cgeneral societal\u201d corruption. They believe \u201cthe western-oriented concept of ethical behavior among journalists does not work effectively in the Cambodian context.\u201d
Other than the \u201cmonk theory\u201d, the explanation is that it is OK to accept a bribe if it is offered and not demanded or asked. Sounds familiar to those who watch media corruption in the Philippine setting. ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/imgs\/stopperpic.png\")
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