The Daily Dose

Last year’s presidential election laid bare the impact of fake news on our democracy. In response, there was a rush to create countermeasures. Facebook and Google both banned fake news sites from their advertising networks, and news organizations like the BBC announced they’d launched their own anti-fake news taskforce. So, it feels inevitable that someone would create a fake-fake news factchecker. In Sweden, a group has emerged called Mediekollen, which promises to debunk false information. Except, as the Guardian pointed out, Mediekollen is itself a “tool of disinformation”. When it covered the controversial Donald Trump intelligence dossier, in addition to…

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