GLOBAL FAKE NEWS:

What makes news real or fake? Who creates fake news, why, and how does it spread? And how do answers to those questions vary over time and around the world? This lecture series takes a global perspective to understanding truth and falsehood in the media and their effects on societies and on international relations. From the philosophy of BS to the history of propaganda, I bring together a wide range of sources and disciplines to consider fake news as a political tool, a side-effect of the social organization of news making, a product being sold to consumers, and either a threat to or an inescapable aspect of democracy.

I originally created this series in Fall 2020 for the course Global Fake News at Indiana University-Bloomington's Department of International Studies.