Why we’re all living in a post-fact world

The move to even shorter news cycles can only mean one thing: less time to check the facts. I don’t envy those reporting on Brexit or the US Presidential campaign, where you’re always one step behind; broadcast news often lags even further behind. I’ve been a...

Why isn’t fact checking easy?

Get your facts right, they said. All the companies featured in the publication I was working on were multinationals and household names. And their top people had been interviewed for the accompanying worldwide TV series, so it wasn’t like I was being asked for...