Tag: Fake News

Total Results: 33


The media reported that Rachel Richardson had been abused — without checking. Credit: Duke University
16 Sep 2022 - 1:02am

The American media’s racism fantasy Stories about slurs are too good to check

Kat Rosenfield

Monday, 12 September

12.09

Why Ukraine’s counter-offensive is working The Kremlin is being fed fake news from the front

David Patrikarakos

Tuesday, 10 May

10.05

The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Thursday, 17 March

17.03

The myth of online misinformation Our moral panic plays into the hands of Big Tech

Geoff Shullenberger

Monday, 11 October

11.10

What turns women into witches? Two new books about witchcraft trials show the powerless have always wanted to be feared

Suzannah Lipscomb

Friday, 17 September

17.09

When fake news was harmless fun A study of hoaxes shows how much darker they've become

Matthew Sweet

Friday, 28 May

28.05

How the culture wars came for history Woke historians want to expose lies about the past — even when they don't exist

Dominic Sandbrook

Tuesday, 20 April

20.04

Ukraine will never surrender to Putin Tension is building on the border as a new generation prepares to stand up to Russia

David Patrikarakos

Wednesday, 30 December

30.12

Stop bad-mouthing the BBC The War Against the BBC: Like it or not, the majority of Brits trust — and value — Auntie

Sam Leith

Wednesday, 30 September

30.09

How paranoia drives politics Richard Evans's new book about conspiracy theories asks: who benefits when truth itself is unstable?

Daniel Kalder

Tuesday, 24 March

24.03

Who are you calling gullible? Contrary to received wisdom, the general public isn't that easily duped

Timandra Harkness

Thursday, 2 January

02.01

America has always been a circus Kurt Anderson's <I>Fantasyland</i> explores the US tendency to blur fact with fiction

Justin Webb