Data Capital podcast: Do we need a 'right to reality' to navigate through our fake news world?

2024-09-02 961

A leading academic has suggested that a new 'right to reality' is needed to help people navigate their way through a complex online world where the lines between truth and lie are increasingly blurred.

Professor Lilian Edwards says we are all operating in a "miasma of uncertainty" where it is extremely difficult to tell the difference between truth and falsehood.

In an episode of The Scotman's Data Capital podcast, the internet law expert says: "I think people increasingly feel they're in a world where they don't quite know what's true.."