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Willful ignorance offers a pretty big loophole to that definition. If you don't fact check information, nobody can say you know it's false.
by tangent128 9y ago
Willful ignorance offers a pretty big loophole to that definition.
If you don't fact check information, nobody can say you know it's false.
- chiefalchemist 9y agoYes. Perfect actually. Then if you don't fact check it can't be presented as news. I think also we could apply the (legal) concept of "reasonable and customary." If say the rest of the (media) industry reported X, Y and Z and you only did Y then that's not reasonable and customary. No doubt there's grey area. But as it is, we're living in a "brown area" if you know what I mean ;)