1. i know i know, this story is infuriating https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/ …
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Replying to @_jeffguo
2. i just want to point out that fake news, as well as public mistrust of journalism, is a centuries-old problem.
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Replying to @_jeffguo
3. this is why the profession started to, well, professionalize starting in the 1900s. a ton of stuff back then was hot garbage
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4. stuff got so bad that some editors wanted to ban coverage of court trials because there was such a bad habit of gawking at grisly crimespic.twitter.com/cnhsOAdBFV
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5. someone literally had to write a manifesto saying "lol, guys, we think newspapers should be guardians of truth and, like, good citizens"pic.twitter.com/noY4wgE319
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6. the fake news problem was overwhelming, and it took a long time for newspapers to build their reputationpic.twitter.com/RlwublxRBo
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Replying to @zeynep
i agree that this is a new challenge! my point: the news universe has always tended toward chaos & it's naive to assume otherwise
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Replying to @_jeffguo
I read a lot of history; know all of this. I think it is naive to assume that there isn't something new and alarming going on.
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There is an enormous tendency among the "learned" to be savvy and cynical about what's going on; it blinds them again and again.
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