Is fake news here to stay?

  • 2018-12-20
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Experience from European elections suggests that investigative journalism and alerting the public in advance can help inoculate voters against disinformation campaigns. But the battle with fake news is likely to remain a cat-and-mouse game between its purveyors and the companies whose platforms they exploit. The problem is not completely novel. In 1925, Harper’s Magazine published an article  about the dangers of “fake news.” But today two-thirds of American adults get some of their news from social media, which rest on a business model that lends i...
 
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