THE RETURN OF FAKE NEWS—AND LESSONS FROM SPAM

https://www.wired.com/story/the-return-of-fake-news/

“THE INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM is broken. Our political conversations are happening on infrastructure—Facebook, YouTube, Twitter—built for viral advertising. The velocity of social sharing, the power of recommendation algorithms, the scale of social networks, and the accessibility of media manipulation technology has created an environment where pseudo events, half-truths, and outright fabrications thrive. Edward Murrow has been usurped by Alex Jones.”

Stephen