Poster for tomorrow

Posted by Hervé Matine
on September 22nd, 2021

Poster for tomorrow goes to Lecce!

Italy - Lecce 23rd to 26th September
4 days, 200 national and international speakers
80 gathering and talks, book presentations, original concerts, screenings, exhibitions.. The festival is back again. The inaugural ceremony is dedicated to the relationship between "Art, creativity and human rights" and starts with the opening of the "100 posters to fight fake news", following by a piano concert for Patrick Zaki by Peyman Yazdanian, the Iranian pianist and composer. French political scientist Gilles Kepel, … Read the whole program here

FAKE NEWS!

Fake news might feel like a recent development that has only come to prominence since the election of one politician who shall not be named, but the practice of spreading rumours and misinformation is as old as the printed word.

People have always twisted the truth, or simply told lies, to get what they want (or change the world). But now we have the ability to share information faster and wider than ever before. It used to be only a few media outlets or government sources that could shape public thought, but now everyone can.

And unlike the media or government, none of us are held accountable for what we post. As there are few laws or fines that can be thrown at us for posting lies, there is no incentive to act responsibly in the public sphere. Get likes (or votes) first, worry about potential consequences later. If the self-styled leader of the free world can’t be held to account for regularly tweeting and spreading blatant untruths, then what stops everybody else from doing the same?