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All news is fake to some extent. I think that so-called 'fake news' is good because it allows people to expose themselves to two extreme opposite views. If pe
by jondubois 8y ago
All news is fake to some extent.
I think that so-called 'fake news' is good because it allows people to expose themselves to two extreme opposite views.
If people want to live in a filter bubble then they can go ahead and do that but it's nice to at least have the option to see alternative views.
I think that there is often a grain of truth behind fake news. If people feel that they're getting screwed over by the system and then an article comes along and tells them "you're getting screwed by the system, this is why...", even if the reason is a poorly researched guesstimate, it's still much more useful in terms of driving social change than articles that just say "the economy is booming, low unemployment all around, everything is great...".