The BBC was issued with a D-notice, a gagging order, last week to silence its reporting of the gilets jaunes protests in France. Or so you might believe if you followed reports on social media. This story was entirely false. But it’s a sign of how powerfully momentum gathers behind misinformation — or deliberate attempts to mislead — that we have received freedom of information requests demanding “the truth”.
英國廣播公司(BBC)不久前收到了一份國防機密通知(D-notice),也就是限言令,要求其不再報道法國的“黃背心”抗議活動——如果你是在社交媒體上看新聞,你可能會相信有這么回事。這條消息完全不實。但已有主張信息自由的人們要求我們公布“真相”,這表明以訛傳訛的錯誤資訊或刻意捏造的虛假資訊已經形成了一股多么強大的力量。
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