Andrew Petter: SFU public square community summit: Confronting the disinformation age

In an age of disinformation, it is not possible to point the finger of blame in any one direction. In advertising, on websites, through social media, we are bombarded with everything from self-serving distortions to outright falsehoods.
Anti-vaccination myths compete for attention with misinformation from climate-change deniers. At the same time, political discourse is becoming increasingly fractured as partisans seek to drive public opinion based on fabricated facts and false narratives. Their