HONG KONG: Chinese tanks at the border? False. Photo of a protester biting off a policeman's finger? Misleading. In polarised Hong Kong, a fake ...
HONG KONG: Chinese tanks at the border? False. Photo of a protester biting off a policeman's finger? Misleading. In polarised Hong Kong, a fake news fight for public opinion has become as crucial a battleground as the city streets.
Police have also been the target of much fake news, including a video debunked by AFP that purportedly showed officers shooting a woman in the face. "The rather simple, one-sided views expressed in such content makes it harder to reconcile the difference," between Hong Kong's warring camps, Kajimato told AFP.
"In this age of misinformation and disinformation, the news media should not report anything they haven't independently verified."This month, the staff union for Hong Kong's public broadcaster claimed reporters were instructed to spread misinformation about a protester using pliers to sever a police officer's fingers.
"Because the news is so obviously fake to Hongkongers, they are now very skeptical of any news they receive," she said.Jeffrey Ngo, a pro-democracy activist, said the sheer volume of conflicting and false news circulating online left people confused. Dedicated fact-checking services, run by independent or mainstream media groups, have emerged in recent years across the globe.
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