# Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett is quoted in a story examining how the spread of online misinformation has undermined the public’s overall sense of what is true during the coronavirus outbreak

1 School News April 1, 2020 ![Fast Company logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_026723.jpg?itok=PGORMP3v)>

Excerpt from [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/90480233/how-an-onslaught-of-lies-about-covid-19-overwhelmed-our-sense-of-whats-true?partner=feedburner) -- “'I think we have been drifting downward for years toward a growing and pernicious consensus that you can’t tell truth from falsity and there’s almost no point in trying to figure out whether there’s truth on a given subject,' says Paul Barrett, deputy director of New York University’s Stern School of Business and Human Rights, who has written extensively on misinformation in election cycles."

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