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When did the most "fake news" started appearing? When you could promote it on one of the most centralized platforms around: Facebook. I think it's easier to ma
by mtgx 8y ago
When did the most "fake news" started appearing? When you could promote it on one of the most centralized platforms around: Facebook.
I think it's easier to manipulate a centralized platform's algorithms. That "high efficiency" of a centralized platform is also what's making the manipulators more effective.
Same with malware makers and so on. It's always easier to do something when there's a single dominant platform.
- Klasiaster 8y agoSpecially if a platform like Facebook allows injecting promoted stuff into user's streams for money.
- PurpleRamen 8y ago> When did the most "fake news" started appearing? Must have been when humans started to speak. Fake News is nothing new, just the name is. In the past there were gossip and rumors, sketchy newspapers who spreaded whatever sold best, and sometimes even satirical things like Bonsai Kittens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten) in the '90s. The only difference today is that people moved from the streets to the net, and gossip-snakes have upgraded their game in quality because of modern tools. But whether centralized or decentralized, the game was and will always be there.