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Fact-checking fake news

Analysis: Financial advisers and fund managers are under pressure from low-cost funds — so their favourite iteration of fake news is talking-up manager skill and playing down the impact of fees.

Fri, 13 Jul 2018

Fake news has emerged as a potent threat to democratic societies, thanks to the internet.

Timothy Ash, writing in the Financial Times, states, “The essence of the post-fact threat to democracy is that entirely false claims (for example, the Pope supports Donald Trump for President) wrapped up in

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