Exaggeration and taking things out of context are one thing (and in some cases nearly as bad), but totally inventing stories about people and using that to mani

Exaggeration and taking things out of context are one thing (and in some cases nearly as bad), but totally inventing stories about people and using that to manipulate people is awful. Why is "soft-dishonesty" okay but "hard-dishonesty" unacceptable? Your argument is predicated on that being true, but it's an assumption. What's more insidious, someone who lies to your face or someone who's acting like your friend but lying behind your back? What has go to with this though is a totally open algorithm for declaring something fake news, essentially a non-partisan fact-checked breakdown of exactly how some source was declared to be "fake" and maybe some other automated metrics. Humans have to build this, which means human bias is inherent in it. I don't think you have any idea how difficult this kind of event classification is. Political science struggles to do it years after the fact.