Pia Lamberty (Author), Katharina Nocun (Speaker)
Fake Facts
How Conspiracy Theories Influence our Thinking
Simple truths for a complicated worldConspiracy theories and fake facts are spreading like wildfire on the internet, and have long ceased to be a fringe phenomenon. According to the factcheckers at the Washington Post, Donald Trump alone has made over 5,000 false assertions. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. And by the time of the 2016 US election campaign, over 50 per cent of voters believed that Obama had been born in Kenya.Since that election (if...
