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NightSide - Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake News

BOSTON (CBS) - Daniel Levitin, author of Weaponized Lies: How To Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era, talks with Dan about the fake news phenomenon and how to think critically at a time when we are bombarded by non-stop information. Has Donald Trump changed the way politicians lie? Or has the media simply decided to go after Trump in a way they've never attacked a President before?

Originally broadcast April 6th, 2017.

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