When books spread fake news

Published October 1, 2019 9:00am ET



Poor fact-checking isn’t just the plague of websites and magazines. It’s disturbing the publishing industry. Just recently, several high-profile “experts” in their fields have promoted major factual errors in their books.

Due to a misunderstanding of historical terms, feminist author Naomi Wolf created “several dozen executions” that never happened.

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