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The term “fake news” may have entered the global vocabulary during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last year, but the phenomenon is not limited to the United States. In Venezuela, the war on truth has reached new heights with rampant rumours, press censorship and intentional fearmongering.
Reporting from Caracas, Miguel Angel Latouche explains why among all the indignities that Venezuelans must daily navigate, the lack of verifiable facts is among the toughest.
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It’s hard to know what to believe these days.
Marco Bello/Reuters
Miguel Angel Latouche, Universidad Central de Venezuela
The president has fled the country. An activist has died in jail. A military coup is afoot. Fake news is dividing Venezuelans, making a peaceful end to its profound crisis ever less likely.
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Environment + Energy
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Alan Marshall, Mahidol University
If the river islands are bombed away and if the riverscape is engineered into something more like a large artificial canal, then endangered species face extinction.
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Jennifer Lavers, University of Tasmania
Plastics pose a major threat to seabirds and other animals, and most don't ever break down - they just break up. Every piece of petrochemical-derived plastic ever made still exists on the planet.
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Health + Medicine
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Frédéric Keck, Collège de France
Pandemics are global threat but not everyone prepares for them in the same way.
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Politics + Society
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Olivia Tasevski, University of Melbourne
Ethnic Chinese and Christians in Indonesia have endured systematic and long-standing discrimination throughout the country's history.
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Tshepo T. Gwatiwa, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
When the US Secretary of State stood up the AU Chairperson the writing was on the wall. Africa needs to become the master of its own destiny.
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