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Q: Itâs not as if fake news in America came into existence alongside the tide known as the Trump presidencyâthe hucksters  foreign propagandists  conspiracy theorists  and fabricators have always been hereâbut if ever there was a year when purposefully misleading or false stories hit their stride  2017 might have been it.  We  were told that an ISIS leader was captured at a US airport  and that Shariah law was instituted in Utah and other states. A study found that 25 million votes for Hillary Clinton were âcompletely fraudulent â and the Las Vegas massacre was carried out by antifa  or ISIS  or the Illuminati  or somehow all three. The lies went on and on  picking up where 2016âs catalogue of nonsense left off. (Remember Hillary Clintonâs child sex trafficking ring run out of a pizzeria  or Sarah Palin banning Muslims from âenteringâ her daughter? How about Alec Baldwin dying  and Trump winning the electoral vote and the popular vote?)
But now  we âre at the dawn of a fresh year  privy to the forces that seek to sow confusion and outrage. Can American society overcome the fake news phenomenon?
Wellâ¦ âThereâs probably a strong case to be made that  we  are chemically addicted to fake news â says  Amy Webb   an author and futurist who founded the Future Today Institute. âWhen youâre seeing your angers and fears and anxieties being validated externally  you get a shot of dopamine.â Thinking about the upcoming year and beyond   she  says   we  may have âa huge problem on  our  hands.â And though the propaganda is coming at  us  from all directionsâfrom Kremlin-backed misinformation campaigns and Twitter troll armies to publicity hounds and political malcontentsâfalling for it  and spreading it  is to some degree our own fault.
In the spring of 2017   Webb  wrote a piece for Mother Jones that detailed not only the manner of 21st-century fake news and the speed with which it travels  but also how we are all accomplices to its proliferation âas we click and repost without considering the storyâs source and its agenda.â  She  noted that the democratization of the internet back in the 1990s meant that âeveryone would get to participate regardless of their agendas.â Information became free and free-flowing. But  problematically  âwe didnât plan ahead as the internet matured â when consumers of information were left to contend with not only âhuman arbiters of factsâ but also code and algorithms that propel certain types of content to the fore  based on our own online behavior. Innocently sharing a cat video put out by Russia Today  a Kremlin-backed propaganda machine that elevates fringe âexpertsâ and attempts to sow distrust  means youâll see a lot more of their content in the future.
Complicating matters more is that in our politicized climate  the term fake news itself came to mean different things to different people. It had a literal meaning that  seemingly overnight  became a hashtag and an epithet to hurl at anything or anyone that one disagrees with. âIf we canât even come to some kind of convergence and talk about something as insidious and as threatening to our future as the spread of misinformationâotherwise known as fake news in the literal senseâthen donât we have sort of a catastrophically huge problem on our hands?â asks  Webb .
As someone who studies current and past trends to try to anticipate what the future may hold   Webb  likes to end these conversations with a reminder that  for however doomed things appear  âWe are not living in the middle of Westworldâthe future has not been preordained. There is something we can do in the year 2018 and beyond  and that is be smarter consumers of news.â

A: Can American Society Overcome the Fake News Phenomenon? â Mother Jones
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Q: Connor Lamb   the Democratic nominee against GOP candidate Rick Saccone in Pennsylvaniaâs 18th Congressional district special election  advocated for more focus on mental health and enforcing existing laws at a campaign stop yesterday.
âNo parent should ever drop their child off at school and be afraid they wonât be alive at the end of the day â  Mr. Lamb  said. âMy heart breaks for those families in Florida and  in Congress  I will work to make sure that people with serious mental illnesses do not have access to guns.â
According to Tribune Live   Lamb  said  âI believe we have a pretty good law on the books and it says on paper that there are a lot of people who should never get guns in their hands." Adding  âAnd we know that the background check system is not achieving that result. What I think it's going to take is people in Congress who are willing to do more than just talk  who are willing to actually work together and stay late  if it requires that  and do some things that would really produce change.â
 Lamb  again emphasized the need for a focus on mental health  saying  âI think that the emotions that a lot of us are feeling right now are very raw because we know that there's not one thing we can do with the stroke of a pen or one thing you can ban â he said. âWe need a comprehensive answer on mental health.â

A: PA Democratic Candidate Opposes New Gun Laws Advocates Focus on Mental Health
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Q: Well  comedian  Bill Maher  must not have gotten the memo. Or maybe  he  did get it and didnât care.
Speaking to Warren face to face on his HBO program âReal Timeâ that night   Maher  asked  her  why more working-class people still back Trump despite  his  tax plan that  Maher  said favored the wealthy.
âTheyâre still with  him . Theyâre not with you â  Maher  told Warren. âExplain to  me  what that disconnection is.â
 Maher  cut off Warrenâs defense: âWell   his  fans are not with you.â
âHold on â  she  insisted. But  Maher  nudged more: âCome on.â
 Maher  then moved in for the kill: âThey donât like you  Pocahontas.â
 Maher  smiled at Warren and laughed as well  presumably signaling to  her  that  his  jab wasnât an attack.
But Warren â hardly ever at a loss for words â fell silent and needed a few moments as the âPocahontasâ ribbing sank in. Check out  her  face just after:
It seemed as though Warren got the joke soon enough.  She  looked as though  she  was about to smile â
but  she  did not reply to Maherâs joke and instead soldiered on with  her  rhetoric:
âHow can it be racist if  she âs not Native American?â one Twitter user asked.
âDisagree completely. Warren is embellishing (or lying  your pick) Trump is calling  her  on  her  BS #PoliticalCorrectnessSucks â another user said.
CNNâs Jake Tapper offered a quote from a Native American friend of his who said Trump uttering âPocahontasâ is a racial slur â but Tapper added in his follow-up tweet that this same Native American friend noted that the Cherokee Nation âdid a formal review and  she  is not a Cherokee citizen.â
Native American friend of mine on Trump calling  her  "Pocahontas": "It is a slur for sure and broadly stereotyping Indigenous people." 1/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28  2017
Also  he says  "a citizen of the Cherokee Nation  I know they did a formal review and  she  is not a Cherokee citizen." 2/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28  2017

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Bill Maher calls Elizabeth Warren âPocahontasâ during TV interview. Check out her reaction. â TheBlaze
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