Truth tellers face another disadvantage: The ways that we acquire and share information are changing rapidly. In seventy-five years we’ve gone from newspapers to news feeds, from Face the Nation to Facebook, from fireside chats to firing off tweets at four in the morning. These changes provide fertilizer for the rapid proliferation of distractions, misinformation, bullshit, and fake news. In the next chapter, we look at how and why this happened.
