![]() Many people if asked would say that the justice system doesn’t work for them, and they’re often right – but not in the ways they probably think. I was, and still am, really worried that the disconnect between the justice system and the people it serves – a disconnect that historically is just as much the fault of us in the system failing to communicate with the public – is increasing day by day. ![]() What this means is that a misleading or untruthful story about, say, something that happened in a criminal trial, can go viral, reaching millions of people in a matter of minutes, with their outrage stoked and exploited by politicians seeking to score easy capital. ![]() You’re quite right – misunderstanding and misreporting of legal cases and the justice system is nothing new in fact one example in the book goes back to the 18th century! But where I sense a shift is in the power of social media, and what seem to me to be the lessening restraints of truth upon those in power. Fake news has been around for decades what was it about 2020 that made you decide that now was the right time to write Fake Law? ![]()
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