The fake news we should really fear

Matthew Alford; Tom Sykes; Stephen Harper

The fake news we should really fear

Matthew Alford^*
, Tom Sykes
, Stephen Harper^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Bath

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Abstract

We live in an era where paranoid political fantasies are not just commonplace but consequential. In the US, Donald Trump swept into the Oval Office on a wave of outlandish narratives – demonising Hillary “lock her up” Clinton and Barack “born in Kenya” Obama. The latest iteration, spilling out unmasked onto British and American streets, is a conspiracy theory called QAnon which alleges that a cabal of Satanic paedophiles is using a bogus virus to enslave the planet. According to believers, among them several Congressional candidates for the November elections, Trump himself is secretly working to thwart this dastardly plot.

Original language	English
Pages	18-20
Number of pages	3
No.	215
Specialist publication	Cold Type
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2020

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Media Freedom
propaganda
Internet technology
Fake news

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