@ESYudkowsky The media is not Satan. It's a loosely-shackled paperclip maximiser operating on friendliness-aligned hardware.
"Fake news" is vague but seems accurate to me. If it means something misleading, I haven't seen that definition.
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The term arose in the context of the uproar about stories being fabricated wholecloth and spread on Facebook on 2016.
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Now it is being used by Trump and the general public to attack stories they disagree with, while sneaking in the older connotations.
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The term "fake news" has become a propaganda tool rather than something that accurately refers to an element of reality.
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The "propaganda" is teaching people the true fact that the news is fake. That the meme is being spread for reasons doesn't make it false.
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What do you mean when you say "the news is fake"? Replace the symbol with the substance.
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In 140 characters? Try my Facebook posts, it'll come up eventually if you don't want to trawl older posts.
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In 140, something like, "You are much better off reading a random eyewitness blog than an NYT story"
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Or "your model of the world will be most accurate if you imagine the media as outright lying whenever they please" rather than trying... 1/2
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...to decode how or whether they managed to trawl quotes from far out of context, selectively interview fake experts, etc. 2/2
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