POLITICAL FAKES IN REGIONAL MEDIA: SOURCES OF THEIR APPEARANCE AND MECHANISMS OF DISTRIBUTION

Abstract

The article contains results of a study of political fakes in regional media, sources of their appearance and distribution mechanisms. In particular, the work examines political disinformation and materials with incorrect information found on the media field of the Tambov region, and identifies reasons for their appearance. The following groups of inaccurate content have been analyzed and typologized: fakes caused by major political and economic transformations, namely the “garbage reform”; a group of unreliable publications that appeared due to the low professional competence of journalists and violations of the fact-checking procedure; the so-called “official” misinformation, true deliberate hoaxes, created for propaganda purposes or with the aim of obtaining various political dividends; medical fakes that have turned into political discourse. As a result of the study, trends in the dissemination of inaccurate information in the regional media field are revealed.