US midterm elections: Does Finland have the answer to fake news?
Posted on AllSides October 13th, 2022
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ANALYSIS
As the midterm elections approach in the US, the wave of false claims surrounding the vote is a reminder of how hard it is to combat fake news. Does Finland have the answer?
A few hours after Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 military reservists in September, a video showing long queues of cars at the Finnish-Russian border started circulating on social media.
The Finnish Border Guard was quick to point out it was fake.
"Some of the videos were filmed earlier and now taken out of context," it said on...
