>What's really really scary to me lately is all of this talk about "fake news", which originally referred to outright lies that were part of click-farms, but is

>What's really really scary to me lately is all of this talk about "fake news", which originally referred to outright lies that were part of click-farms, but is now being talked about as if CNN and MSNBC are somehow the only source of "real" news. this is an intentional ploy designed to conflate the issues of tabloid-trash and dissent. we don't even need a ban for the tabloid trash... but once we link it to dissenting from the mainline and call it the deciding factor of the election (a huge leap...), we put the mainstream media who have proven to be incompetent and dishonest back at the wheel.