There is no benign explanation for President Trump’s false assertion that millions of people voted illegally in the last election. It is either a deliberate attempt to undermine faith in the democratic process, an exhortation to those who favor new restrictions on access to the ballot box or the worrisome […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Fake news hurting US
Voters of all stripes are concerned fake news is hurting the nation. At the same time, most believe they can tell the difference between real news stories and fake ones. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
The Numbers Game of Donald Trump
… Mr. Trump, who has branded himself as everything from a world-class developer to a reality-television star to, later, a plausible presidential candidate, has long deployed what he described in his first book, “The Art of the Deal,” as “truthful hyperbole,” and others might call lies. … But to the […] Read more »
Rebuilding legitimacy in a post-truth age
The current state of public and political discourse is in disarray. Politicians lie with impunity. Traditional news organizations amplify fact-free assertions, while outright fake news stories circulate on social media. Public trust in the media, science, and expert opinion has fallen, while segregation into like-minded communities has risen. … The […] Read more »
An Implosion of Trust
… The 2017 Edelman TRUST BAROMETER finds that two-thirds of the countries we survey are now “distrusters” (under 50 percent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to do what is right), up from just over half in 2016. This is a profound crisis in trust […] Read more »
The House decides not to set its last shred of public confidence on fire
The last time more than a third of Americans had a lot or a great deal of confidence in Congress, Ronald Reagan had just won reelection as president. The last time two-thirds of the country had at least some confidence in the institution was 2005 — right before a series […] Read more »