{"id":32571,"date":"2023-11-05T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/?p=32571"},"modified":"2023-11-05T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:37:47","slug":"press-conference-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/en\/press-conference-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Conference Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of knowledge and politics, we may immediately have images of politicians expressing themselves in election campaigns and political debates. Politics can be a game of manipulating facts to influence public opinion. Does that mean that facts don&#8217;t matter in politics? With the expansion of the media through the use of modern technologies, we encounter an overwhelming amount of claims made by politicians on a daily basis. In this &#8220;Post-Truth Era&#8221;, it seems increasingly difficult to distinguish news from &#8220;fake news&#8221; and knowledge from propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>The IB students held a press conference in the role of politicians, manipulating facts, reason and language to present events or similar events from a different perspective in order to fit a particular political agenda. They were also confronted with questions aimed at exposing such things as misleading statistics, partisanship and logical fallacies.<\/p>\n<p>Amina Aldubouni<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32571 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/01-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/01-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/02.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/03.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/04.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/04-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/05.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ds-doha.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of knowledge and politics, we may immediately have images of politicians expressing themselves in election campaigns and political debates. 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