Fake news and partisan epistemology
R Rini - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2017 - muse.jhu.edu
This paper does four things:(1) It provides an analysis of the concept 'fake news.'(2) It
identifies distinctive epistemic features of social media testimony.(3) It argues that
partisanship-in-testimony-reception is not always epistemically vicious; in fact some forms of
partisanship are consistent with individual epistemic virtue.(4) It argues that a solution to the
problem of fake news will require changes to institutions, such as social media platforms, not
just to individual epistemic practices.
identifies distinctive epistemic features of social media testimony.(3) It argues that
partisanship-in-testimony-reception is not always epistemically vicious; in fact some forms of
partisanship are consistent with individual epistemic virtue.(4) It argues that a solution to the
problem of fake news will require changes to institutions, such as social media platforms, not
just to individual epistemic practices.