Lies, Damn Lies, and Fake News

Authors

Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Computer

Volume

50

Issue

2

First page number:

80

Last page number:

85

Abstract

The Oxford Dictionaries selected 'post-truth' as the 2016 international word of the year. This is such a preposterous recognition from a heretofore august publication that I just can't allow it to pass in silence. © 2017 IEEE.

Keywords

History of computing; Out of Band; Fake news; Politics

Language

english

Repository Citation

Berghel, H. (2017). Lies, Damn Lies, and Fake News. Computer, 50(2), 80-85.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2017.56