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It was there pre 2016 it just didn't have this catchy term "fake news" yet. Ever heard of Gell-Mann Amnesia?

• albertTJames 6y ago
  Do you have any example ?
  • jackric 6y ago
    Balloon boy
  • zimpenfish 6y ago
    "Misinformation and the 2010 Election: A Study of the US Electorate" https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/11375/Misinformation_Dec10_rpt.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/11375/Misinfo...
    • albertTJames 6y ago
      No mention of social media, facebook or any other platform. If the argument is that there was political misinformation before 2016 then of course, it has existed for centuries. I am referring to the spread of misinformation through social media, at scale, which is the theme of the article. This was not seen at scale before cambridge analytica/brexit/trump/troll factories. Yet the platform existed for ~8years before it started.