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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Political Science Perspective on Fake News
Authors : Muiris MacCarthaigh, Connel McKeown
Published in: Data Science for Fake News
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Contemporary concerns about “fake news” are typically framed around the need for factual accuracy, accountability, and transparency in public life at both national and international level. These are long-standing concerns within political science, but the problem of “fake news” and its associated impact on the fundamental political questions about who governs and how have taken on new potency in the digital age. In this chapter, we begin by considering what is meant by fake news before examining the issue in a historical political context. The chapter then turns to more recent manifestations of fake news and the real-world challenges it presents. A final section considers how fake news has attracted interest in the study of elections and voting behaviour, international relations and strategic narratives, and transparency and trust in government.