I find the panic about “fake news” a little overdone. I understand there are a lot of news stories out there that aren’t true, but it’s been that way for a long time. The National Enquirer has been at my supermarket checkout lane for decades. That’s pretty fake news.
If by fake news, you mean lies, they’ve been around for a long time, too. Hitler lied about the Jews.1 Stalin lied about Katyn Forest. Vladimir Putin lies all the time. Crimea. Ukraine. The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. Anybody who believes Vladimir Putin isn’t paying attention.2
It could be, with the Internet, fake news today travels a little faster and gets a broader distribution, but so does everything else.
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