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I had not thought of it in this light. The context I had in mind was propaganda and other stories published by mainstream newspapers.

• notahacker 11y ago
  So more like a Snopes for the mainstream media then? The trouble is, mainstream media usually (i) is correct on the actual course of events reported and (ii) already comes to wildly differing conclusions about the rights and wrongs, which facts are most relevant, whose opinions matter and what will happen in the future. Disagreeing with other commentators' editorial stance and tearing them out for reporting rumours which later turn out to be false is something mainstream media personalities take great pleasure in doing already. So if your stance is writing alternatives to things that the media pretty much universally agree on, you're inevitably straying into pretty outlandish territory