Paris, France—From disinformation campaigns to soaring skepticism, plummeting trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow.
Platforms like Facebook “are now explicitly deprioritizing news and political content,” the Reuters Institute’s 2024 Digital News Report pointed out.Few are keen to pay for news. Only 17 percent of people polled across 20 wealthy countries said they had online news subscriptions in 2023. In the United States, partisan websites masquerading as media outlets now outnumber American newspaper sites, the research group NewsGuard, which tracks misinformation, said in June.
“Eradicating disinformation seems impossible, but things can be implemented,” Reporters Without Borders editorial director Anne Bocande told AFP.