Truth Itself Becomes Suspicious: On Rob Brotherton’s “Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News”

IN 1889, the science fiction writer Jules Verne and his son, Michel, envisioned that, in a thousand years, there would be a personally curated newsfeed. What’s really remarkable about that futuristic prediction, says author Rob Brotherton in his new book, Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News, is that “[i]t took a little over […] The post Truth Itself Becomes Suspicious: On Rob Brotherton’s “Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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