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Although the most effective would be to have some kind of liability for spreading/posting fake news The market cannot do this, at least as currently constitute
by stcredzero 8y ago
Although the most effective would be to have some kind of liability for spreading/posting fake news
The market cannot do this, at least as currently constituted. Right now, fake news which pleases the sensibility of whatever group gets rewarded by that group. The same group also fails to punish the fake news. The surprising fact, which shouldn't be surprising, since Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman have been calling this out since the 80's, is that the mainstream does this too. The differences in 2019, are that pushing narratives and differences in emotional language play a much larger role, and factual accuracy is much less important to the public now than it was then.