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Members Making News

The New Yorker published an interview with Sophie Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and AHA vice president, Research, who discusses the relationship between American democracy and the idea of truth in the era of social media and “fake news.” Rosenfeld examines the way in which notions of truth have been contested in American history and emphasizes the continued importance of asking what is true and “How do you know what’s true?”