Fake news or real? or how to become media savvy: How did we get to this point?

From The Economist, one of the most reliable published sources.

Arendt was a political theorist who addressed issues in politics, authority, democracy, and totalitarianism.

Connecting the dots from business to politics.

Bogus news has been around a lot longer than real news. And it’s left a lot of destruction behind.

According to a new survey by Pew Research Center, most Americans suspect that made-up news is having an impact. About two-in-three U.S. adults (64%) say fabricated news stories cause a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues and events. This sense is shared widely across incomes, education levels, partisan affiliations and most other demographic characteristics. These results come from a survey of 1,002 U.S. adults conducted from Dec. 1 to 4, 2016.

From the news magazine, US News and World Report.

Try to not let the title of this article dissuade you from reading it. The article lays out the history of fake news in business.

Wall Street knows a thing or two about hoaxes and fraud.

"he structure of modern social networks leads to perception bias, or the fact that a person’s connections often skew their perception of how prevalent a trait or belief is in society."

The scholarly article upon which the article above is based.