> Seen that way the problem with 'fake news' is not that it is 'fake' but that it is 'news'. salient point. as a writer, the essential condition for any story

> Seen that way the problem with 'fake news' is not that it is 'fake' but that it is 'news'. salient point. as a writer, the essential condition for any story is a conflict because it's the source of tension or dissonance that people engage with for resolution. the issue with the "fake news" wasn't the facts, it's that the conflict that brought them together as a story was manufactured cheaply from ideology. this had a compounding effect where the absurdity of the resulting conflict with reality drove further outrage from the other "side." it's a pan-partisan problem. fine observation anyway, I'm provoked. to get better news, the conflict it expresses needs to be more organic. imo using community notes is way more organic than the governance model FB and formerly twiiter used.