Fake News
Fake news and the internet shell game. A case study.
“We’re the new yellow journalists.” “I have a beautiful family, a beautiful life.” “I never thought he’d actually get elected.”
The fake news conspiracy theory that led from rumor, to hashtag, to gunfire in D.C.
What Gamergate should have taught us. Had we taken it seriously, Pizzagate might never have happened.
Students can’t tell fake news from real.
The first president of our post-literate age.
It’s up to all of us to stop it.
Google, democracy and the truth about internet search. It’s like the fascists saw John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and thought “Lebensraum!”