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News Collective Featured in SDFF 2020 Doc Releases Short on COVID & Media Environment Teeming w/ Disinformation

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While SDFF 2020 may have been postponed, our commitment to encouraging nuanced analyses and public discussion of the current media environment and the relationship between truth and representation that has been focalized in popular discourse. To that end, we hope you’ll take a look at this a clear-eyed, sharp examination of the outbreak of disinformation […]

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SDFF 2020 Official Selection The Great Toilet Paper Scare Makes Its Mark in an Unexpected Way

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SDFF 2020 programmers selected Brian Gersten’s The Great Toilet Paper Scare in the Fall, for its effective, humorous take on an early iteration of “fake news.” The film’s titular event, a toilet paper shortage, took shape following a Johnny Carson joke in 1973, and can be seen as prototypical of present day fake news that inundates social media.

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