"This is my truth - tell me yours" - the forensics of fake news
by Jane Whyatt
You probably remember the phrase, “This is my truth – tell me yours!“ Its history reminds us that fake news is not new and that politics is a battle of beliefs.
Everything you wanted to know about fake news but were too afraid to ask. (Photo: ECPMF)
The phrase is well known to 1990s pop music fans, the title of a hit album by Manic Street Preachers.They took it from a famous speech by the late Welsh socialist politician Aneurin Bevan. He opposed German rearmament in the 1930s and founded the UK’s National Health Service.
Why is it relevant today?
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