The phrase "Fake News" was originally created by the media (after Trump won). The story was Russians had fabricated news to trick people into supporting Trump.
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In about a year, Trump changed the meaning of "Fake News" completely. He turned it around on the media. Now when you say "Fake News" you think of CNN lying.
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He skull fucked the media. It's hilarious. And he rewired people's perceptions completely with Twitter. Language is a beautiful thing and he who has command of it can move nations.
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There’s a weird symmetry with the concept of “the big lie,” which was coined by Nazis.
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There is a Goebels quote people cite about how lies are harder to dispute when they’re more extreme, which everyone reads as one of those supervillain confessions even though he’s just being anti-Semitic.
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