The Fondation Descartes' experts select and comment on key publications on disinformation, trust in the media and the Foundation's other research topics. This data base is available online to members of the Foundation and in the Foundation's documentation centre.
FRONT-PAGE PUBLICATIONS
01/03/2017
In the early 2000s, the growth of online news prompted a new set of concerns, among them that excess diversity of viewpoints would make it easier for like-minded citizens to form “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” where they would be insulated from contrary perspectives.
01/01/2020
Disinformation studies have been engaged in a pivot to Asia. A growing number of scholars and governmental experts around the globe who were once fixated on Russian operations are now […]
01/04/2004
An alarming number of Americans no longer trust the media to report the news fairly. This study explores factors that explain variation in media trust.
01/01/2018
The media treatment of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant combined all the modalities of fake news and disinformation.
27/11/2017
Histoire d'Arnaud de Montlaur, responsable de la levée des fonds de François Fillon pour les campagnes des primaires de la droite et du centre, puis des présidentielles de 2017.
01/01/1989
How to define the public opinion? What are the mechanisms for influencing the public?
01/03/2019
In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell questions “what we currently perceive as productive”.
Descartes tells how he found "the true method of attaining knowledge of all things of which (my) mind would be capable".
01/05/2019
The usual notions of delirium, lies, fabulation, mythomania, can be associated or even entangled.
02/03/2020
French weekly Le Point interviews Sebastian Dieguez on the effects of false information that have accompanied the coronavirus outbreak.