#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Art Answers to Phony Questions A path through the primer focusing on speaking hardtruths about and through poetic, abstract, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on Images A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, visibiity, and the power of images Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths of the Internet A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the power of Expression Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

Fake News R Us

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A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity

We Americans helped, or at least allowed, the internet/ourselves to produce the conditions where our president reflects the norms and values of that place that most of us more and more frequently call home. (from #100hardtruths #3: Trump is our rightful internet president)

Contents of this path:

  1. #3: Trump is our rightful internet president
  2. #6: today’s fixes to fake news are bogus
  3. #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economy
  4. #11: real apologies for #fakenews aggravate its symptoms
  5. #14: skepticism is a weapon and a quality
  6. #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material results
  7. #17: Barak Obama says “we won’t know what to protect”
  8. #28: face(book?) is best for people with pale skin
  9. #35, science is real
  10. #36, history is real
  11. #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information
  12. #43, emotional+rational resonances needed
  13. #47: good design and software mask bad credibility
  14. 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50
  15. #57, most Americans may conclude he’s a fake president
  16. #60, spot a #fakenews site in 10 steps
  17. #66, make sure to fact-check the trump archive
  18. #73, it’s about xenophobia, racism, and sexism
  19. #75, no time for fools
  20. #80, outlast virality
  21. #84, stage #fakenews events
  22. #89, ten (more!) superhardtruths about #100hardtruths (certainly not) needed