Thomas Laschyk
Thomas Laschyk is a blogger and activist against disinformation. He studied International Literatures at the University of Augsburg and wrote his master’s thesis on storytelling in social media fake news. He is co-founder, managing editor and managing director of the popular and award-winning blog “Volksverpetzer”. The Anti-Fake News-Blog reveals the strategies of extremists and conspiracy theorists and exposes their disinformation campaigns, sometimes with a needed hint of humor, but always fact-based. In his first book Werbung für die Wahrheit (Advertising for the truth, 2024), Laschyk explains why people really fall for fake news and why so much educational work is ineffective. He describes what is going wrong in the German media landscape and also takes stock of the responsibility of some traditional media organisations in the fight against disinformation.
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