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I remember some fake news about Iraq and WMD around 2003.

• type0 7y ago
  It wasn't news, that was convenient untruth.
• deleted 7y ago
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• paganel 7y ago
  Up until two years ago I was still able to find a NBC or CBS article from May 2003 saying how more than 80% of the US public was approving of said military intervention and how that was making the whole thing ok (or at least that was the implicit message). I used to link to that article whenever this subject of fake news (or propaganda as it was called at the beginning of the 20th century) came into discussion on reddit or here, on HN. A couple of times I also linked to the Athenians' pre-Sicilian Expedition [1] propaganda campaign led by a certain Alcibiades, a war which had disastrous consequences on Athens itself. So it seems that we have been in an "information apocalypse" for at least ~2400 years now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Expedition
• YarickR2 7y ago
  There are much more recent examples. Venezuela, "burned humanitarian aid trucks" fiasco.