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I don't think the proliferation of fake news is due to the lack of gatekeeping. I think the issue is the ease of authoring fake content. Publishing a piece of

by a_c 7y ago

I don't think the proliferation of fake news is due to the lack of gatekeeping. I think the issue is the ease of authoring fake content. Publishing a piece of news/article used to mean hosting a website, registering a domain, writing html, running a web server. All require studying, the very action to battle disinformation. Now all we have to do is make an account (or even not) and start typing on keyboard. Opinion is like a-hole, everyone got one. But not every piece of opinion as useful as an a-hole. Lowering the bar of publishing is normalising the weighting of each opinion. Which I think is the root cause of today's internet

techntoke 7y ago
You'd be surprised how many fake news artist and disinformation agents have pleasantly designed websites. The problem isn't so much that anyone can post something on Reddit, and people believe it as fact. It is that they read it on Reddit, then their browser history curates their recommended videos on YouTube to validate what they read using real people who make money off these ideas, then they send money to their Patreon to get the exclusive information which includes access to a nice looking website. Here are some examples: https://lightonconspiracies.com/ https://lightonconspiracies.com/ https://charlesortel.com/ https://charlesortel.com/ https://truepundit.com/category/featured/ https://truepundit.com/category/featured/ https://crowdsourcethetruth.org/ https://crowdsourcethetruth.org/ Those are just a few of hundreds, if not thousands.