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This is a book about scrutiny in America in the quarter century leading up to the 2016 presidential election, as one way to better understand the routine use of fake facts by Donald Trump (and other politicians) and the emergence of the political fact-checking industry. While fake facts are an important part of the story, scrutiny is a broader concept that is sometimes about determining whether facts are true or false, but at other times does not particularly concern the veracity of uttered claims. Thus, checking for fake facts is sometimes the point of online scrutiny, sometimes a tool of online scrutiny, and sometimes irrelevant to the scrutiny.
This is a book about scrutiny in America in the quarter century leading up to the 2016 presidential election, as one way to better understand the routine use of fake facts by Donald Trump (and other politicians) and the emergence of the political fact-checking industry. While fake facts are an important part of the story, scrutiny is a broader concept that is sometimes about determining whether facts are true or false, but at other times does not particularly concern the veracity of uttered claims. Thus, checking for fake facts is sometimes the point of online scrutiny, sometimes a tool of online scrutiny, and sometimes irrelevant to the scrutiny.
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