Szakács on the Business of Misinformation

Misinformation is not always ideologically motivated. On the contrary, most fake news websites serve primarily to make money, our Fellow, Judit Szakács writes in her article published by Eurozine.

The article is based on the findings our Business of Misinformation project, aimed at keeping track of the individuals and companies that own misinformation websites and their links to institutions, parties and other individuals. The project canvasses websites that systematically and methodically create and target false information to persuade audiences to adopt ideas and ways of thinking embraced by their original promoters or their sponsors, be those political, social, economic, health-related or else.

The project is run in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova.