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Fake news are better than biased news.
by return0 10y ago
Fake news are better than biased news.
- andygates 10y agoIn what way? Explain and justify, please.
- return0 10y agoFake news are easier to detect. Bias is always subtle and insidious.
- andygates 10y agoAnd yet we see the general readers swallowing fake news as if it were truth, and even retorting that they don't care if it's fake, it's the kind of thing those people would do. This is out of the scope of news and into the scope of propaganda, and it does matter.
- return0 10y agoThey are very rarely "actual fake news", but usually untruths presented in a way that is impossible to falsify. At least to my experience. Perhaps you could cite a news item that survives but is proved to not have happeend.
- pvdebbe 10y agoIn a sense, biased news are also fake. They don't cover the whole truth and may contain traces of nontruths. Similarly, all fake news are biased, unless they are markov chain -generated gibberish with apolitical sample data.
- return0 10y agoI'm talking about factually fake. Hiding some truth is distinct from telling a lie.