Foreword: Sifting and wiinnowing in the "post-truth" era / Deepa Kumar -- Introduction / Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff -- The top censored stories and media analysis of 2016-17 / complied and edited by Andy Lee Roth: Widespread lead contamination threatens children's health, and could triple household water bills -- Over six trillion dollars in unaccountable Army spending -- Pentagon paid UK PR firm for fake Al-Qaeda videos -- Voter suppression in the 2016 Presidential election -- Big data and dark money behind the 2016 election -- Antibiotic resistant 'superbugs" threaten health and foundations of modern medicine -- The toll of US Navy training on wildlife in the North Pacific -- Maternal mortality a growing threat in the US -- DNC claims right to select Presidential candidate -- 2016: a record year for global internet shutdowns -- Law enforcement surveillance of phone records -- US quietly established new "anti-propaganda" center -- Right-wing money promotes model legislation to restrict free speech on university campuses -- Judges across US using racially biased software to assess defendants' risk of committing future crimes -- Shell understood climate change as early as 1991 and ignored it -- "Resilient" Indian communities struggle to cope with impacts of climate change -- Young plaintiffs invoke constitutional grounds for climate protection -- Rise in number of transgender people murdered -- Inmates and activists protest chemical weapons in US prisons and jails -- Seattle activist group leads first successful campaign to defund police -- Fossil fuel industry "colonizing" US universities -- Lawsuit against Illinois Department of corrections exposes militarization of law enforcement inside prisons -- Facebook buys sensitive user data to offer marketers targeted advertising -- Eight use of force policies to prevent killings by police -- Juvenile court fees punish children for their families' poverty -- Post-truth dystopia: fake news, alternative facts, and ongoing war on reality- junk food news and news abuse for 2016-17 / Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff, and others -- Media democracy in action / introduction by Andy Lee Roth, with contributions by Rachael Jolley, Chase Palmieri, Mahsood Ebrahim, Julianne Rodriguez, Kevin Gosztola, Rania Khalek, and Gennie Gebhart -- The new American authoritarianism: how the corporate media normalized racism in 2016 / Nolan Higdon and Nicholas L. Baham III -- Trump universe / words by Adam Bessie and pictures by Peter Glanting -- Defamation as censorship in the social-media era: Who counts as a media defendant? / Elizabeth Blakey -- Still manufacturing consent: the propaganda model at thirty / Edward S. Herman -- Breaking through power: mass media blacks out the Super Bowl of citizen action / Ralph Nader.