Alert: Don't Believe Everything You Read About the Migrant Caravan

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 4:34 p.m.

Call it the era of misinformation. Call it a crisis of trust. If you must, call it fake news. The truth is that in 2018, hot-button news events are immediately weaponized online by interested parties, whether that\u2019s foreign actors trying to undermine democracy, local politicians trying to rally their base, spammers trying to make a quick buck, even trolls in it for the old-fashioned lulz\u2014or all of the above.