Can we untangle this web of deceit?

"I'm hopeful that the information overload might be provoking a long-overdue upgrading of the general population's capacity to distinguish for itself between good and bad arguments. Rather than blaming the internet, we need to attribute responsibility to the right place, which is with people who dish out the falsehoods in the first place, and ourselves for swallowing them too easily."

This week's Herald column.