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Aspen Ideas Festival
The Future of News: Is There a War on Truth?
Season 2
Episode 86
Is the internet loosening our collective grasp on the truth, and if so, how do we solve it? Pioneers of digital news once argued that new online sources and lower barriers to entry would bring us new perspectives about the world.
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