Why We Should Keep Talking about Fake News

Eliot Michaelson; Jessica Pepp; Rachel Sterken

doi:10.1080/0020174X.2019.1685231

Why We Should Keep Talking about Fake News

Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, Rachel Sterken

Philosophy

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In response to Habgood-Coote (2019. “Stop Talking about Fake News!” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (9–10): 1033–1065.) and a growing number of scholars who argue that academics and journalists should stop talking about fake news and abandon the term, we argue that the reasons which have been offered for eschewing the term 'fake news' are not sufficient to justify such abandonment. Prima facie, then, we take ourselves and others to be justified in continuing to talk about fake news.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	471-487
Number of pages	17
Journal	Inquiry
Volume	65
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1685231
Publication status	Published - 27 Mar 2022

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