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Are you suggesting the term 'conspiracy theorist' is somehow a new thing tied to the emergence of 'fake news'?
by ionised 8y ago
Are you suggesting the term 'conspiracy theorist' is somehow a new thing tied to the emergence of 'fake news'?
- jakeogh 8y agoThe other way around. Fake news and the older term have the the same origins. Neither are accidental. Both are designed to short-circuit critical thinking. Consider how logically meaningless the term "conspiracy theory" is. A great deal of US law is specifically written to address conspiracies. They are forms of psychological warfare. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606