La guerre à la vérité gagne du terrain

Si ça fonctionne pour Donald Trump, ça fonctionne pour d'autres également? L'équipe éditoriale du New York Times s'indigne du fait que ce sont trop souvent des élus qui s'en prennent à la liberté de presse, la pratique n'étant plus exclusive aux régimes autoritaires.

 "Back in the days when news was printed on paper or broadcast over radio and television, authoritarian powers like the Soviet Union and its ideological replicants simply seized control of the outlets, censored what came in from outside and repressed anyone who spoke out. The methods were crudely effective, but they also endowed smuggled-in news with the credibility of the forbidden.

New information technologies — the internet, social media, smartphone cameras — were supposed to overcome censorship. They did, but they also armed autocrats with new ways to undermine the credibility of honest news. Fake news — the really fake kind — has proliferated, along with notions such as “alternative facts.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/opinion/media-duterte-maria-ressa.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage