The complex challenge of fake news is recognized in Germany but has yet to be sufficiently addressed.
Germany currently enjoys an excellent reputation in the coronavirus pandemic. Who does the world expect to emerge strengthened from this crisis of unprecedented proportions? Germany, as predicted in, inter alia, the New York Times in July 2020.
Yet Germany has not been spared by the negative impact of fake news, or simply fakes, as the phenomenon can no longer be described as new. We are bombarded with fake news from around the world that reaches users in Germany via the social media in particular
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