If fake news concerns you, you might want to realize that the current media's entire business model is based on fake virality.
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wrote the most recent book I remember on this, but his video also does a good job of summarizing it:
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Everyone from low end blogs you've never heard of to the NYT has been on this juice for many years now.
It's about what earns them money.
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You should realize that if a newspaper posts an honest story and you ignore it, they earn less than if you get pissed off over a fake story.
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I repeat: your outrage and grandstanding earns the media more money than simply ignoring bad stories. This is why they post bad stories.
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If their business models weren't based on selling ads and other forms of attention-mongering devoid of content, it wouldn't be so.