‘Fake News’: The War Has Erupted

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October 23, 2018

Published in El Mundo
(Spain) on 19 October 2018
by Teresa Aburto (link to original link to original)

Translated from by Matthew Gittings. Edited by Eric Stimson.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want to have to beg for forgiveness again. If in 2016 he dismissed the idea that the spread of false news could be a factor in Donald Trump’s victory as “crazy,” for the November midterm elections the CEO has armed himself to the teeth. The social network announced yesterday that it had successfully used its recently created internet content control center for combating fake news, or “war room,” for the first time, in the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections. One more step against disinformation; a battle won in the war against those two words that President Trump repeats to the point of absurdity and behind which he defends himself from any accusation. Those words that favor his victory and which are now coming under attack from the alliance of the social networks and the free press: “fake news.”

'Fake news', la guerra ha estallado

ZUCKERBERG no quiere tener que volver a pedir perdón. Si en 2016 tachó de 'loca' la idea de que la difusión de noticias falsas en Facebook pudo ser un factor en la victoria de Trump, para las 'midterm' de noviembre el CEO de la compañía se ha blindado. La red social anunció ayer que usó por primera vez con éxito su recién creado centro de control de noticias falsas o 'cuarto de guerra' en la primera vuelta de las presidenciales de Brasil. Un paso más en la lucha contra la desinformación; una batalla ganada a esas dos palabras que el presidente repite hasta el ridículo y en las que se escuda ante cualquier acusación. Las que favorecieron su victoria y contra las que ahora combaten, en alianza, las redes y la prensa libre: 'fake news'.

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