Fake News Is About to Get Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed
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Fake News Is About to Get Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed
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Re: Fake News Is About to Get Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed
#2Hopefully the author's existential attitude gives way as people become comfortable with not knowing facts and learn to think more carefully about their principles.
Re: Fake News Is About to Get Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed
#3Usually I avoid articles like this because theyre so clearly clickbait but I decided to read it just to see if maybe clickbait has evolved into something somewhat worthwhile and thought-provoking while I wasn't looking.
Nope! Article rehashes the "trump won 'cause fake news" drama, blames it all Russia (and then on certain non-Russian individuals 4 poorly organized paragraphs later), and rewords two press releases of yet-to-be-released products.
If I wasn't on mobile I'd probably write 3 more paragraphs of ranting about why clickbait garbage like this isn't worth the weight of its bits in lead.
Re: Fake News Is About to Get Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed
#4Narrative control is about to get harder than you ever dreamed.
We have finally entered the post-modern political era in earnest. Epistemological nihilism is going mainstream as trust in the press and other public institutions goes to zero.
And who knows what rough beast, its time come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born...