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What do you even mean? NYT has a price sheet for sponsered content/native ads. If you have the funds, you can put any "fake news" you want in the NYT. Much mor

• unethical_ban 10y ago
  What a load of garbage. If you're talking about what I think you are, you're mentioning those half/full page ads that are marked "advertisement" and have slightly different fonts than the normal news. It's hardly a conspiracy theory to allow Trump to buy reporters.
• brightball 10y ago
  I remember thinking it was odd that for the last year or so I've been getting bombarded with mail and advertising from ZipRecruiter...and then magically they have a major quote in a NYT piece pre-election around the state of the job market.
• dinkumthinkum 10y ago
  What do you mean all news is fake to so degree? That just sounds like Thiel's contrarianism or just an attempt at being provocative, or is it some sort epistemological claim?
• okreallywtf 10y ago
  This is a trend I've noticed: because everything is on a scale then people just feel justified to basically pick whatever they want. Because its impossible to say anything with certainty, everything can be given equal consideration? You can allow for nuance and uncertainty without using faith-based logic for news, science does a pretty good job of it and gives a good framework for best-guess judgements. Just because everything is "fake" to some extent doesn't excuse lazy, confirmation-biased opinions.