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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Rumors, Secrets, Fake News: Evaluating Political Information in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Discussions about "fake news" are not new since the advent of the internet. Secrecy, rumors, and disinformation have always been part of political communication. With the intensification of correspondence and the emergence of periodical printed newspapers in the 17th century, political decision-makers faced new challenges. Information could now spread across the entire European continent within a few weeks. In addition, a large number of agents in the service of competing powers were active, uncovering secrets but also spreading false news. Impostors and project makers, who appeared with supposed insider knowledge, made the situation even more confusing. With the daily arrival of news and offers, the question always arose as to whether they were facts, rumors, deceptions, or revealed secrets. The question of the status of the information was often closely linked to the assessment of the reliability of media and individuals who conveyed it.
The contributions of the planned section illuminate, through case studies, the practices of evaluating political information and its carriers in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A particular focus will be on how the problem of temporal and spatial distances was dealt with in evaluation processes and to what extent different political decision-making structures affected the handling of political information. How could secure knowledge of political events in distant China, "East India," the Ottoman Empire, or during a dynamic war be produced? And were collectively governed republics more susceptible to false news than princely cabinets - or did they, on the contrary, have additional resources to verify the truthfulness of information?
Der Beitrag Rumors, Secrets, Fake News: Evaluating Political Information in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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