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> I found myself drifting in my own interpretation of fake news, getting angry as I came across articles that I didn’t agree with, fighting hard against the urg

> I found myself drifting in my own interpretation of fake news, getting angry as I came across articles that I didn’t agree with, fighting hard against the urge to only pick ones I thought were right. What was right or wrong anyway? A good question and I'm not surprised he went a bit crazy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/ > The problem of truth is in a way easy to state: what truths are, and what (if anything) makes them true. But this simple statement masks a great deal of controversy. Whether there is a metaphysical problem of truth at all, and if there is, what kind of theory might address it, are all standing issues in the theory of truth. We will see a number of distinct ways of answering these questions.

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What is "right" in news has become "a compelling narrative that appears plausible to the reader." What is "wrong" in news is "an implausible narrative relative to the reader." Plato deals with truth which is something entirely different, not in the same realm of the current state of news. To be more specific, news can be one of four things to a reader: plausible and true, plausible and untrue, implausible and untrue, and implausible and true. Most readers seem to more concerned with a stories' plausibility and not it's trueness. Most importantly though is readers no longer value the "truth" component of news. They value whether or not the narrative aligns with their own view of the world. Because what truly happened doesn't matter to most people, only that they have a way to make sense of it themselves. Even if it's a partially or completely false narrative.