Latin American academicians and scientists create project against fake news

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 29 (ACN) The Red Verdad (Truth Network) project, driven by a group of academicians, scientists and activists from different social movements, was born as an initiative to build a platform of contemporary ethical thinking to elaborate serious opinions about the fake problem, Professor Fernando Buen Abad said.

In an interview with the multiplatform Telesur, Buen Abad, currently director of the Sean MacBride University Center for Information and Communication and of the Institute of Culture and Communication, of the National University of Lanus, told the details of this new project.
The specialist in image philosophy, communication and culture criticism, who is also the main coordinator of Red Verdad, explained that mankind lives in a net ecosystem in which politics and communication also interact, more and more for the worse.
Therefore, he considers that the seriousness of that scenario represents a security risk for our people; hence the accelerated process of production of fake information, given that it is called the post-truth, must be understood hand in hand with the lie.
Red Verdad is a joint initiative of the Institute of Culture and Communication and the University Center for Information and Communication "Sean MacBride", both from the National University of Lanus (Argentina), and the Center for Science, Technology and Research (Mexico).
The platform invites its users to report fake news, a term used to identify the dissemination of untrue news that causes a dangerous circle of misinformation.
Every source of information must pass through a critical look, "we must foster a current of decolonizing critical thinking driven by the people. Putting the threat posed by fake news on the agenda of all struggles," Buen Abad concluded.