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In today's political climate, even with incontrovertible evidence, all you need to do is shout out at the top of your lungs: "FAKE NEWS", and it doesn't matter
by toomanybeersies 9y ago
In today's political climate, even with incontrovertible evidence, all you need to do is shout out at the top of your lungs: "FAKE NEWS", and it doesn't matter any more.
- kumarvvr 9y agoGiving in to those who shout so is exactly their goal. We, as technologists, should come up with solutions that allow such shouts to become meaningless.
- Bartweiss 9y agoAs national political news to a cynical, disinterested audience, fine. But that's thinking too small: what happens when every recording of corporate misdeeds, every photo of a cheating spouse, even a child's baby pictures, lose their solidity as evidence? What happens to anonymous online conversations when "pics or it didn't happen" becomes "it didn't happen"?