Facts, alternative facts, and fact checking in times of post-truth politics☆
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We thank Maja Adena, Adam Berinsky, Julia Cage, Matthew Gentzkow, Irena Grosfeld, Elise Huillery, Nonna Mayer, Brendan Nyhan, Maria Petrova, Giacomo Ponzetto, Francesco Sobbrio, David Stromberg, Daniel Treisman and the participants of workshop in HEC Lausanne, PSE seminar, the 15th Annual Media Economics Workshop, and the ENS Institut Jean Nicod seminar as well as the anonymous referees for their helpful comments. We are grateful to Philipp Ketz for advice on theoretical econometrics. Sergei Guriev thanks Sciences Po’s Scientific Advisory Board for the financial support. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya thanks the European Research Council (ERC) for funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program (grant agreement no. 646662). This project obtained the approval of the internal Institutional Review Board of the Paris School of Economics, the approval number is IRB 2017-021.