To personally welcome you to the texas book festival in austin, texas when the greatest book festival in the united states. My name is brian sweany, proud member of the texas book festival comest you can totally trust me when i say that. We are here with an esteemed panel to writers that i very much admire for a panel called falsehoods, forgeries and fake news. I often think times person of the year may very well be fake news, something that comment our language. Fake news is maybe the city of houston which is sent to you we can advocate for. Fake news has become so ingrained in every aspect of our lives in terms of how we Consumer Media and understanding political discourse in the large decision going forward. Id like to introduce our panel today an esteemed writer and poet karen young. Kevin young, author of several books. The latest we will be discussing today is called bob, the rise of postaccident fake news. How can you not want to read that . Kevin also started on wednesday as th