The Atlantic Daily: Don't Bank On It

Fake News, Cont'd: During a TV interview last night, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway attempted to defend her boss's travel ban by pointing to "the Bowling Green Massacre"--which never took place. Conway tweeted that she "meant to say'Bowling Green terrorists,'" but her gaffe falls into a larger pattern of the Trump administration's "alternative facts." One true fact about the travel ban is that it revoked 60,000 visas--though a DOJ attorney erroneously said 100,000 earlier today. That error was poorly timed, since there's been a recent increase in fake news aimed at the biases of Trump's detractors as well as his supporters. We talked to Brooke Binkowski of the rumor-debunking site Snopes about the rise of fake news among progressives and what to do about it.