POLITICAL SATIRE AND FAKE NEWS IN THE POST-BREXIT UK MEDIA DISCOURSE (JUNE 2016 – JANUARY 2020)
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https://doi.org/10.30890/2567-5273.2023-29-04-009Keywords:
Brexit, Great Britain, political satire, fake news, media space, media discourse.Abstract
The article examines the problem of the presence of political satire and fake news in the media space of Great Britain in the post-Brexit period (June 2016 - January 2020). Based on the analysis of public and social media materials, their content, means aMetrics
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