fake news Archives - Desperate Living

The Click Trap explores the world of online disinformation – but ironically does so in a rather subjective and biased way.

Once they have you locked in, the people behind social media seem determined to make the experience as increasingly awful as they possibly can.

The mind-reader and TV magician staked $50,000 on mass UFO sightings in 2002. Can you predict what happened next?

The mockumentary ghost story from 2009 has found a new audience – and new relevance in a world where no one knows what is real and what is fake.

Scaring people into compliance and controlling the public discussion with vaguely worded laws and campaigns of moral panic.

A childhood fantasy tale about the death of the digital age.

The curious desire to beat people up for making a mistake online.

Smugly wrecking lives for money and power – the British tabloids continue to occupy the bottom rung of humanity.

The British Censor’s new research is simply a questionnaire telling them what they wanted to hear.