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Over the past decade, we\u2019ve heard a lot about \u201cfake news\u201d and \u201cmisinformation.\u201d And as 2024 is an election year, it\u2019s likely we\u2019re going to hear even more about these terms.

So what is the origin of misinformation in the American press? When did Americans decide that they needed to be concerned with figuring out whether the information they heard or read was truthful or fake?

Jordan E. Taylor joins us to find answers to these questions. Jordan is a historian who studies the history of media and the ways early Americans created, spread, and circulated news. He is also the author of the book Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America.

Show Notes:\xa0https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/375



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