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Saying fake news to open makes it hard to read the rest of your comment which was otherwise helpful.

• aaron695 7y ago
  How would you suggest I say it succinctly? I am saying it's fraud. It's taking money for the worlds poorest people. And BBC is not fact checking. I'm really sick of people not calling out tech they know doesn't work. I'm sick of people just saying weak statements like it 'probably' won't work. Calling it for what it is. Calling it fraud might have legal issues, I think #fakenews works. And I understand the next level, NGO's help poor communities by going there and inject money by buying beer and women and hiring locals to construct things that don't work well and will fall apart in few years because wells are boring and no one wants to fund them. But they also need wells.
  • sev0 7y ago
    "Fake news" is awkward because it's what you say to discount things you don't like that are actually true. My friends and I all use "fake news" when we're criticizing someone or something, but not to describe actual misleading information. When used earnestly, then, it looks like you're either joking or denying reality. It's left as an exercise to the reader to figure out why this is.
  • codezero 7y ago
    Do something about it then. People don’t usually come to the comments section of hacker news to start or join a cause.