I wrote about the botched Washington Post Vermont scare and the ever slippery definition of "Fake news"http://fair.org/home/wapo-spreading-own-falsehoods-shows-real-power-of-fake-news/ …
But I will continue to suggest "algo-driven misinfo" may get around categorical problems of excluding Trad Med @lookoutcoffee
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I'm linguistic descriptivist, and a term emerged recently though we are losing it which was my issue.
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Yeah. Seeing as how I've had these discussions abt 19th C news I don't think it's a recent thing. Could be me!
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But not that term.
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Oh. I worked in French, Argentine, and Czech, among others. What term do you want?
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I did diss group w/people working in Japanese, Hebrew/Israeli, others. What term do you think they should look for?
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Point is, across history and cultures there has always been a fluid line between fiction and "news" (and our "news" now is a fetish)
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Everything has antecedents. Internet has added something distinct. Anyway, I think you understand what the disagreement is.
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NOOOOO. Not Internet. Algos.
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