# Professor Amy Webb offers insights on fake news

1 Faculty News December 10, 2017 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033208.jpg?itok=60bPhpHy)>

Excerpt from [Mother Jones](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/can-american-society-overcome-the-fake-news-phenomenon/#) -- “There’s probably a strong case to be made that we are chemically addicted to fake news,” says [Amy Webb](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb), an author and futurist who founded the Future Today Institute. “When you’re seeing your angers and fears and anxieties being validated externally, you get a shot of dopamine.”

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