The internet: it’s the greatest collection of information, instant news and diverse perspectives ever assembled. It’s also a dumpster fire of misinformation, deception and scams—where everyone is empowered to be wrong as loudly as they like. In this hour-long session hosted by a GCC librarian, we’ll trace some of the ways that information has changed from the Cronkite era, when print and TV news reigned, to the current world where information is abundant, decentralized and often difficult to interpret. We’ll discuss how internet hucksters play on our biases and our fears to get clicks, and consider some tools we can use to curate our news consumption and build a picture of world around us that’s mostly accurate, most of the time—which is the best any of us can do. Free for GCC students; everyone else, please register and pay online.