To the Point
'Fake news' is everywhere. How can journalism keep up?
By now we're all familiar with how deliberately wrong information can dominate social media and online searches -- when it comes to politics. But even after such tragedies as the recent hurricanes and the Las Vegas mass shooting, conspiracy theories have spread like wildfire.
By Jamil Smith • • 1 min readBy now we're all familiar with how deliberately wrong information can dominate social media and online searches -- when it comes to politics. But even after such tragedies as the recent hurricanes and the Las Vegas mass shooting, conspiracy theories have spread like wildfire. About 45 percent of Americans use Facebook as a primary news source or conduit. Yet, it doesn't have a traditional media operational structure -- newsrooms, fact-checkers in the traditional sense. And that's adding urgency to the question of how we can separate real news from fake. Guest host Jamil Smith asks, are Google, Facebook, and other tech companies doing enough to stop it? What about readers?
Jamil Smith
senior writer for Rolling Stone
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Yael Even Or
Producer, 'Press Play'
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Charlie Warzel
staff writer at The Atlantic
Gabriel Kahn
Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Publisher/editor of Crosstown LA
Eric Deggans
TV critic for NPR