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Fabricating Canards

Igor Čatić


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Abstract

The Internet age has made it possible to pass some news in real time, simultaneously to a large number of potential readers. Some pieces of news are intentionally false. The entire phenomenon can be named with the untranslatable English word hoax. Patkarenje (fabricating canards) is a special form of hoax in which erroneous pieces of news are deliberately made up and launched to disturb the reading public. This is not a new phenomenon; the term novinarska patka (canard) has already been in use for a long time. However, the phenomenon had no name. It is now called patkarenje (fabricating canards) and the activity word is patkariti (to launch canards).

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Hrčak ID:

133518

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133518

Publication date:

1.12.2014.

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