Suzanne Harrington: Beware the alternative facts of the cosmic right

"With oceans of information, however, comes tsunamis of stupid, because unlike monks with quills or publishing houses with slush piles, the internet is for everyone."

As if the pandemic hasn’t been tricky enough, it has been accompanied by what the WHO calls an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation. It has been, says the director of the International Fact Checking Network, “the biggest challenge fact checkers have ever faced”. 

A Reuters / Oxford University study examined the mountains of manipulated, fabricated, misleading, and false content, and concluded that, yes indeed, there has been a ton of twaddle peddled as fact.