Introduction; 1. The age of post-truth politics; 2. The phenomenon of fake news, part one – Donald Trump's Twitter politics; 3. The phenomenon of fake news, part two – the news media respond to Trump Brandon Buscarnera, Rachael Bucci, Claire Foley and James Carlson; 4. The phenomenon of fake news, part 3 – public opinion and contested meanings; 5. Fake news as propaganda – the Bush and Obama years; 6. Fake news and US foreign policy in the Trump era; 7. The intensifying fake news crisis in the age of social media; Conclusion.
