I mean, you've gotta shed a flashlight on the problem to let people know it's there before you can begin fixing it.
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And how would you propose fixing it w/o, first, fixing our clickbait press?
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Hell if I know. It's definitely a complex problem. But the first step is convincing people that such propaganda DOES exist.
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Not in understanding that our media system is what makes us weak, not the actual content--especially fairly harmless trolling--of any media?
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My grandma reads an account like that one and trusts it over an established journalist because she doesn't know the difference.
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Or maybe it's bc WaPo "an established journalist" is using the same tactics.
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Fetishizing "established journalism" that uses precisely the same tactics is not going to help.
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Somebody tell the WaPo you never feed the trolls.
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75% of the Fake News news industry is feeding trolls. 50% of that appears at BuzzFeed, which may be jealous they've been out clickbaited.
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it's tough out there for a....
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Is "the west" so fragile that the Russian embassy in London can undermine it with tweets? Oh the drahma.
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