A software to help journalists to debunk fake videos on social networks shown during an international festival dedicated to digital innovations in Paris, on June 10, 2017. Photo by Michel Stoupak/ NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved 0 0 1 1149 6551 Open Democracy 54 15 7685 14.0 Normal 0 false false false ES-TRAD JA X-NONE
In the context of the Internet Governance Forum 2017 and growing international debates about the so called “fake news”, the undersigned organizations would like to express strong concerns about possible paths that the framing of the issue is taking.
The terminology has been widely spread in rhetorics from the Global North, but we cannot import such a concept without taking into account the long history of media concentration and manipulation in Latin American and Caribbean region. Legitimizing the term as a novelty is misrepresenting the nature of the problem, as asserted by Frank La Rue during the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva:
