What is Fake News?

In this episode, we discuss Fake News. What is it? Is it something new? Can we do something about it? Or do we have to accept it as a necessary evil, and can we then perhaps learn how to deal with it?

We have a conversation with Steven Rathje, a young psychologist who recently joined New York University after graduate work at Cambridge, and who is studying the emergence of fake news and the psychology of social media.