TRUTH vs FAKE NEWS
In a world where Putin and Trump have successfully branded journalists as traffickers in fake news, while promoting the spread of actual fake news, a new book shows the tools that are used to deceive us and explains why they work. In Truthteller investigative reporter STEPHEN DAVIS reveals how governments and corporations have covered-up mass murder, corruption and catastrophe. In this edited extract, Davis points to the tyranny of distance as a key factor employed by those in power to cover up the truth.
Investigating the death of an Australian scientist at the South Pole, he discovered a culture far removed from the pristine image of life on the ice...
At 90° South, flags are as ubiquitous as snow and ice. At sunset once each year, 13 national flags are raffled off amongst the general population and the three flags at the main entrance — of the United States, the National Science Foundation and the US Antarctic Program — awarded to deserving workers. In 2014, the three entrance flags were accidentally left outdoors.
Darkness gradually descended, with plummeting temperatures and howling storms. The flags needed replacing. A couple of the workers knew just what to do when one of the new flags could not
