ABSTRACT The proliferation of fake news and of conspiracy theories has coincided with the emergence of the digital media. Although the extensive distribution of misinformation is nothing new, the emergence of online media proved to be especially fertile for conspiratorial populists in transmitting distorted information. Since 2016, conspiracy theories, disguised as news, have spread like a snowstorm across the political scene on both sides of the Atlantic. As I discuss in this paper, this climate has enabled conspiratorial populists to be especially successful in spreading suspicion of established knowledge, which they claim to have been produced by the elite and which is eschewed for its association with the powerful. Alongside the diminished gatekeeping capabilities of the mainstream media, it thus becomes ever more difficult for people to distinguish between factual stories and fictitious news often spread via unscrupulous websites, as both can be presented in the same guise.

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民粹主义与错误信息政治

摘要假新闻和阴谋论的泛滥与数字媒体的出现相吻合。尽管错误信息的广泛传播已不是什么新鲜事，但事实证明，在线媒体的出现对于阴谋的民粹主义者传播扭曲的信息尤其有用。自2016年以来，被伪装成新闻的阴谋理论像暴风雪一样席卷了大西洋两岸的政治舞台。正如我在本文中所讨论的那样，这种气候使阴谋民粹主义者在散布对既有知识的怀疑方面尤其成功，他们怀疑这些知识是由精英产生的，而由于与强权的联系而被避开了。除了主流媒体的关门功能减弱之外，