Donald Trump’s surprise win last month, following a narrow pro-Brexit vote in the UK earlier this year, has sent pundits and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic scrambling to explain just what has gone wrong. The current consensus: some admixture of “fake news” and Russian “influence” is to blame for these setbacks. For an example of this kind of thinking, look no further than this bit of s0-called data journalism proffered by Politico over the weekend:
In a year of populist uprisings and electoral upsets, Facebook has become a cesspit of fascist, xenophobic and racist sentiments. Conspiracy theories and fake …read more
Source: The American Interest
