If people want to be bullshitted they will be bullshitted. Fake news on BOTH sides allows people's confirmation bias to give them that nice hit of dopamine on h

If people want to be bullshitted they will be bullshitted. Fake news on BOTH sides allows people's confirmation bias to give them that nice hit of dopamine on how right they were about those Muslim immigrants or ignorant flyover hillbillies. Step one is to realize your side is just as full of shit as the other and to accept that your favorite politicians are not right about even half of most public policy ideas. After that, then you can start working on removing biases. Edit: Also fake news is such a shitty term. Call it what it is: propaganda. Media that plays to the worst elements of our animal brains to bring the greatest emotional response and move our fingers to the share buttons. It's nothing new, we just have an unprecedented amount of it available to us and little desire to hear the complex and often unintuitive truth to many issues: nuance doesn't fit in a tweet.