{"id":8757,"date":"2020-02-28T15:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2020-02-28T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:03:57","slug":"after-truth-disinformation-and-the-cost-of-fake-news-a-look-at-the-damaging-consequences-of-the-rise-of-fake-news-in-the-u-s-debuts-march-19-exclusively-on-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/after-truth-disinformation-and-the-cost-of-fake-news-a-look-at-the-damaging-consequences-of-the-rise-of-fake-news-in-the-u-s-debuts-march-19-exclusively-on-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,&#8221; A Look at the Damaging Consequences of the Rise of &#8220;Fake News&#8221; in the U.S. Debuts March 19, Exclusively on HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8758\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/after_truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/after_truth.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/after_truth-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/after_truth-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/after_truth-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/after_truth-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>AFTER TRUTH: DISINFORMATION AND THE COST OF FAKE NEWS, debuting Thursday, March 19 (9:00-10:35PM ET\/PT), investigates the ongoing threat caused by the phenomenon of &#8220;fake news&#8221; in the U.S., focusing on the real-life consequences that disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false news stories have on the average citizen. This documentary humanizes a phenomenon that Americans will confront in the coming election cycle and for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The film will also be available on HBO On Demand, HBO NOW, HBO GO and partners&#8217; streaming platforms.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1407274972\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Directed by Andrew Rossi (&#8220;Page One: Inside the New York Times,&#8221; HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven&#8221;) and executive produced by CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter, AFTER TRUTH features exclusive access to the victims and perpetrators of false news stories as well as a variety of experts and journalists who contextualize its impact and reinforce the importance of quality journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The concern over disinformation and false news in our global information environment became ubiquitous after President Trump&#8217;s victory in 2016, but the film shows that signs of the crisis were emerging well before the election.<\/p>\n<p>AFTER TRUTH draws on a wealth of interview subjects to illuminate the issue from several angles while emphasizing the human toll in case studies. Subjects include: James Alefantis, owner of the D.C pizzeria embroiled in the &#8220;Pizzagate&#8221; conspiracy; Keith Alexander, Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for The Washington Post; Harvard professor Yochai Benkler who deconstructs the concept of the &#8220;propaganda pipeline;&#8221; conservative political operative and self-professed user of &#8220;fake news&#8221; Jack Burkman; author and conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi; Oliver Darcy, senior media reporter for CNN; Adam Goldman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times; University of Pennsylvania professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson; disinformation expert Molly McKew; Aaron Rich, brother of DNC staffer Seth Rich; Scott Shane, reporter for the New York Times; Will Sommer, tech reporter for The Daily Beast; Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher; Elizabeth Williamson, feature writer for The New York Times; and others.<\/p>\n<p>AFTER TRUTH examines several incidents that have been impacted by &#8220;fake news:&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"morty-2080500551\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00b7 In the summer of 2015, Jade Helm 15 &#8211; an eight-week military exercise in Bastrop, Texas &#8211; sparked a heated conspiracy among locals who believed President Obama was using the operation as a ruse to detain political dissidents. Promoted by Alex Jones, spread on sites like Reddit and 4chan and exacerbated by actions taken by the governor&#8217;s office, which eventually assigned the state guard to monitor the exercise, the conspiracy was of great concern to intelligence and security experts who say it was stoked, in part, by covert Russian information activities targeting the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 In 2016, online speculation led to what would become known as &#8220;Pizzagate.&#8221; A family pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. became the target of vicious online conjecture that a child pornography ring with links to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was being run on its premises. Known as a safe space for the queer community, Comet and its staff were increasingly terrorized online until the violence crossed into the physical world and an armed gunman burst into the restaurant looking for proof of the crimes. 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