Biblioracle: ‘Owned’ by Eoin Higgins picks apart how billionaires bought the media landscape

Biblioracle: ‘Owned’ by Eoin Higgins picks apart how billionaires bought the media landscape

It’s hard to know who to trust these days. Our media is fractured, long past the days of trusted, broadly accessed news sources. Information crops up on social media decontextualized and severed from its origins or even from a coherent chronology. Artificial intelligence can be used to spoof voices, images and even video, so we literally cannot believe what we see with our own eyes if we encounter it online. Historically, one of the sources that…

Democracy requires a strong media landscape

Democracy requires a strong media landscapeTasmanians have a right to trusted information. It helps us understand how government policies and the actions of vested interests affect our lives. Access to reliable information is essential for the functioning of democracy and enables us to shape the kind of society and lifestyle we want in our state.In our contested and rapidly changing information environment, the risk of misinformation, manufactur…