In March 2020, HBO aired a Brian Stelter-produced documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” which typically focused on how a “mainstream media” dedicated to truth had to expose and defeat pro-Trump kooks and grifters, such as InfoWars, which claimed the Sandy Hook school shooting was faked.
New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik celebrated Stelter, a Times alumnus, for his focus: “Its strongest animating idea is that fake news is not simply a political abstraction. It’s a real offense that harms real people.”
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