Jason Collington

Tulsa World Executive Editor

I received a book called “The Death of Truth” as a gift.

I became so interested in what I read that I reached out to the author, who I think wins the prize for longest subtitle of any book: “How social media and the internet gave snake oil salesmen and demagogues the weapons to destroy trust and polarize the world — and what we can do about it.”

Steven Brill became famous after he founded Court TV. Back in the 1990s I subscribed to his magazine Brill’s Content, a media watchdog publication that predicted some of the world we live in today. He also started NewsGuard, from which I have quoted before and which is a global leader in the growing field of “information reliability.”

Brill told me that in uncertain times people are hungry for exp

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