Jamie Bowen of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, comes to Maricopa Public Library to present “The Impact of Fake News in the Real World,” the latest in the Frank Talks series. Bowen will discuss how “fake news” affects community conversations and civic engagement.

In general, fake news is journalism that consists of deliberate misinformation, news whose main purpose is to distort the truth for emotional persuasion, seeking to drive action. More recently it has become a catch-all term used to discredit stories, and in the political arena to influence the political process and elections in the United States and abroad.