Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News

Published: July 18, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend. It was a few weeks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had killed 17 people, most of them teenagers, and promptly turned the internet into a cesspool of finger pointing and conspiracy slinging.