"The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature - tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking - which...

The real danger to responsible journalism, free speech, and democracy comes from within the United States, rather than from foreign intruders and social media technology. And we're not talking about the Google search engine bias or Facebook’s partnership with the Atlantic Council to suppress disinformation threatening democratic elections! The 2018 book, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler, Robert Fari

PBS Newshour reports that only “11% of Republicans and 37% of Democrats say they trust National media organizations.” In 2017, the term “fake news” was used 174 times in tweets by the President. Perhaps that’s why? Wikipedia defines fake news as “a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Fake news is written and published with the intent to misle