We trust Facebook more than our fathers trusted newspapers in the past?

Social Media increasingly takes over the role of the press. While it was up to the vigilance of the editor to publish something, now it is the individual decision of each user whether s/he believes what s/he reads or not.

• What is the role of social media in shaping the public’s opinion?
• Is it good or bad that it turned out like this?
• How does social media select the availability of news – what kind of algorithms decide and how which news appear in our timelines?
• What is more dangerous about fake news: the hidden content as a mine, or its possibly wildfire-like spreading, like a time bomb?

In today’s episode of What’s next podcast series, host András Mihálovits is searching for answers to these questions with Attila Kert, director of Euronews, Dávid Szirmay, deputy editor-in-chief of Blikk and Gábor Polyák media lawyer, head of research at Mérték Media Monitor.