Fake news and conspiracy theories go viral in a matter of hours, creating alternate realities and serving propaganda purposes. This post-truth phenomenon exposes the vulnerability of the liberal democracy, the online community, and international politics, argues Nayef Al-Rodhan in this article for the Global Policy Journal. Among the antidotes he suggests, to blunt this scourge, are fact-checking technologies that securitise fake news and link scientific expertise and policy-making more tightly.
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/07/06/2017/post-truth-politics-fifth-estate-and-securitization-fake-news

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