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I agree that those sorts of cases are very hard to deal with. However, I think the "fake news" the MPs are trying to combat is actually really trivial stuff tha

I agree that those sorts of cases are very hard to deal with. However, I think the "fake news" the MPs are trying to combat is actually really trivial stuff that pretty much nobody on HN would pay attention to. Stuff like: "Yoko Ono: ‘I Had An Affair with Hillary Clinton in the ’70s’". Just absolute nonsense where anyone with a modicum of critical thinking would realize that such a story would be on multiple news sites. I think it's possible to at least eradicate basic fake news like that with education. We can try our best to teach kids statistics and how to analyze them, but I agree that is a very hard problem as many people are just mathematically illiterate in general anyway.

scruple 8y ago
Yes, and you're right, of course. There is certainly a lot of blatantly incorrect tabloid-esque stuff floating around today that people take as fact at the headline-level. I suppose, in my defense, that it's easy to forget those sorts of things exist in digital form if you don't come across them frequently.