From Buzzfeed, Alex Kantrowitz on how the 2016 election blew up in Facebook’s face. For the “new yellow journalists”, opportunity comes in clicks and bucks. Inside a fake news sausage factory: “This is all about income”. Some fake news publishers just happen to be Donald Trump’s cronies. Donald Trump needs the media, just not the media you think. Before “fake news”, there was Soviet “disinformation”. Fake news is not the only problem: Bias, propaganda, and deliberately misleading information are much more prevalent and do more damage. You think the truth took a hit last year? It's about to get worse, a lot worse — Charles Sykes on Donald Trump and the rise of alt-reality media. Can truth survive Trump? Arthur Goldhammer on what the triumph of brazen fabulation portends for the future.
