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What is 'fake news' cannot be objectively determined - would just be a new cudgel for elites to use on the weak for their own power.
by cwkoss 4y ago
What is 'fake news' cannot be objectively determined - would just be a new cudgel for elites to use on the weak for their own power.
- krapp 4y agoIt can far more often than not. However certain parties have a vested interest in pushing the narrative that all news is equally fake and that any attempt to distinguish truth from lies is simply propaganda.
- cwkoss 4y agoIt's epistemology 101. Absolute truth can never be determined. So we must inherently use imperfect method of approximating the truth. Those approximations are open to criticism, so any system that determines fake news will necessarily have to take a 'stance' in some situations: it will politicize and reflect the biases of those administrating the system.
- someNameIG 4y agoI wouldn't say that's always the case. For example not long ago I saw some "news" segment going around twitter saying a paper showed that the COVID mRNA vaccines where gene therapy. The paper said no such thing, it wasn't even a slight misinterpretation but an outright lie.
- cynusx 4y agoJust like facts don't exist and we didn't invent this thing called "science" to determine what is fact and what is opinion