Addressing a lecture on the subject ‘Digital Journalism in the Age of Fake News’ at Habib University, Deutsche Welle TV Director General Peter Limbourg said on Friday that social media had had a transformative effect on the spread of news, having made news about global events accessible to literally everyone.
However, he warned that this had also had the negative effect of the spread of unverifiable news, which went against the very basic tenant of journalism that of checking facts. “We need to strengthen the ability to access, analyse, create and reflect on the media,” he emphasised.
