How can we defend ourselves legally from the fake news in COVID-19?
An unprecedented situation after COVID-19 What can be done if the company or any of its executives have been affected by false or inaccurate news due to the coronavirus? How can the dissemination of false news affecting corporate reputation be remedied? What measures can be taken in the face of disinformation or false news that [...]
Companies vs. fake news
False news has always existed, although social networks and their great capacity to viralize all types of content have made them a phenomenon of unstoppable dimensions. A phenomenon, moreover, that is no longer linked only to political circles, but also reaches businesses and corporations around the world. Disinformation is an evil that has found in [...]
The artificial meat and the necessary prior publicity
I comment an article published in Expansión quoting it, and my comments without quotes. «Meat consumption has reached alarming levels.» Bullshit. Consumption has dropped, as has milk consumption. Thousands of farms were closed in Spain last year. «Livestock accounts for 14.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions and takes up two thirds of agricultural land (with [...]
Is it Possible to Lead Without Lies?
These days, plastic has invaded everything in such a way that a few brave – with a lot of suffering, so it is said – presume to live without plastic. They appear on television reports working like fools not to use a single plastic wrap throughout the day. You have to admire their discipline and […]
UnfakingNews: Combating Disinformation
Why is it that nowadays it's more difficult than ever to identify truth from fiction, if our knowledge about who we are is much greater than it's ever been? Does being more informed today mean being better informed? The problem of disinformation has now been labelled as something that seems impossible to understand through [...]
Ismael Nafría: "Paying for Information is Today an Inevitable Choice for the Survival of the Media".
Ismael Nafría, author of the book "The Reinvention of The New York Times", has been advising media outlets around the world for years. He knows well the journalistic business and understands the challenges that the media faces today in these moments of change and uncertainty. We review with him some of the issues have been [...]
Find Me a Foe and I'll Win
If there have been two outrageous episodes of the fake news being spread by robots through social networks managed by communication consultancies, they are the Cambridge Analytica and Birnbaum & Finkelstein incidents. Of the first one, almost everything is known. That Facebook «sold» to Cambridge Analytica - for academic purposes -, detailed information of 50 [...]