This series is now available to stream on demand before broadcast with the PBS Video App. Today these platforms are a source of anxiety – with fake news and extreme views on social media networks, the ...

This image released by PBS shows historian Niall Ferguson, host of “Niall Ferguson’s Networld,” a three-part series now streaming on the PBS site, on the PBS Video app and on YouTube. (Chimerica Media ...

The first, "Niall Ferguson's Networld" on PBS, possesses a scholarly and broader historical bent, for both better and worse. The second, HBO's "After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News," ...

Until recently, most casual conversations about current television would arrive at the same conclusion: “There’s just too much! You can’t watch it all!” That diagnosis is now being put to the test.

Looking at the fight against terrorist networks in Iraq, Russian attempts to divide Americans through social media and the rise of an Internet-powered surveillance state in China, Ferguson shows how ...

In this groundbreaking new series hosted by Niall Ferguson and based on his bestselling book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson visits network theorists, social scientists and data analysts to explore ...

Historian Niall Ferguson has a knack for timing his TV projects. He debuted his examination of the global financial system in “The Ascent of Money” just as the 2008 economic crisis was hitting. Now he ...

The first, “Niall Ferguson’s Networld” on PBS, possesses a scholarly and broader historical bent, for both better and worse. The second, HBO’s “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” ...

The spread of information and disinformation via social networks is the subject of not one but two documentaries this week — an especially timely one-two punch, at a moment when the value of facts and ...