A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation

Minna Horowitz, Stephen Cushion, Marius Dragomir, Sergio Gutiérrez Manjón, Mervi Pantti

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Public service media (PSM) are widely acknowledged as part of the variety of solutions to disinformation. The remit of PSM, formed around values of universality, equality, diversity, accuracy and quality, implies a responsibility to fight disinformation by producing fact-based news content and finding anti-disinformation solutions. In this article, we introduce a framework for assessing how PSM organizations are able to counter disinformation in different contexts. Our normative framework provides a triangulation of contextual factors that determine the role of the PSM organization in the national environment, the activities carried out to fight disinformation and expert assessments of the potential of PSM to reduce the impact of disinformation. The framework is illustrated with analyses of PSM from the Czech Republic (CZE), Finland, Spain and the United Kingdom (UK).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)843-865
Number of pages23
JournalDigital Journalism
Volume10
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Czech Republic
  • Finland
  • Public service media
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • fact checking
  • information disorder
  • policy

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