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Fact or Fiction: The Battle for Truthiness in Social Media

Jonathan Crossfield August 28, 2020 In 2005, the American Dialect Society declared “truthiness” its word of the year – but not for its original, albeit archaic, usage of describing the habit of being truthful. Earlier that year, comedian and satirist Stephen Colbert gave truthiness a very modern and ironic spin when trying to come up … Continue reading Fact or Fiction: The Battle for Truthiness in Social Media