Fake News
False News Has a Long History—But Those In Power Failed To Heed It
In his book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, Samuel Woolley explores how governments failed to foresee...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: TikTok Deepfakes, Online Advertising, and the US-China Standoff
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
"Fiction is the lie through which we...
The Good News: Fewer Americans Were Exposed to Fake News in 2018. The Bad News: This Probably Won’t Last
As it turns out, a majority of the American public is not bad at identifying disinformation. But as the 2020 election nears, the online...
Journalism Over Algorithms: How One Company Is Attempting to Combat Fake News
NewsGuard is a new startup that relies on reporting instead of artificial intelligence to rate the trustworthiness of news sites: “It became obvious to us...
