From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

The Way Forward in a Post-Truth world.

I'm Barbara Bogave sitting in for Warren Alney, and this is To the Point.

Fake news may be as old as the printing press itself, but social media

and its algorithms have supercharged its reach, speed, and potency with the time's violent results.

When partisan politics makes it nearly impossible to agree on facts, what happens to democracy?

And what role will the mainstream media, technology companies, and educators play in untangling the bogus from the real?

We'll look at the year in fake news from the Pope's endorsement of Trump to Pizza Gate.

And on today's talking point, the reason so many of us are willing to believe unreasonable things.

Author Michael Lewis on why humans aren't wired to be rational.

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We're back to The Point. I'm Barbara Bougaven for Warren Allney. Just ahead, fake news,

why such an old problem is worse than ever before and what mainstream media, tech companies, and educators are doing to raise media literacy in a post-fact world. That's coming up.

And on today's talking point, why we're so vulnerable to those bogus news stories? We talk with

Michael Lewis on his new book, The Undoing Project, about two psychologists who pioneered research

on human fallibility and decision-making. First, this news update, the United Nations Security

Council was set to vote today on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements on a Palestinian

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