1.

fake news false reports of events, written and read on websites

the post-truth age relating to circumstances in which people respond more to feelings and beliefs
than to facts
2.
Truth: evidence, accurate, fact, real, credible, reliable
Untruth: fiction, fabrication, exaggeration [преувеличение], conspiracy theory, fake, fantasist,
prejudice, bias [ˈbaɪəs] [предвзятость], bogus [фиктивный], doubtful

3.
Jeff Broadbent is an investigative journalist.
The idea of being in a post-truth age keeps him awake at night.

4.
1 Separating fact from fiction is more difficult due to amateur journalism on the Internet.
2 Conspiracy theories weren’t as big a problem as modern fake news because the stories tended to
be on fringe websites that looked like they were written by fantasists and they were only read by a
minority.
3 Because they all have their own political bias.
4 Because there was an organized strategy of targeting voters with fake news stories via social
media.
5 They can use the fact that fake news is so common to ignore questions about difficult news stories
simply saying that they’re fake news.
6 Because it makes it easy for them to choose what to believe and stick to their prejudices.
7 Advertisers will pay for fake news if it generates clicks on sites where they advertise.
8 Because we can’t know what’s true and we can’t then know who or what to vote for