The #fakenews about Iraqi WMD DID get hundreds of thousands killed. https://twitter.com/peterwsinger/status/806126607740104704 …
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Replying to @emptywheel
Conflating two very, very different types of failures is not helpful.
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Replying to @zeynep
How are they different? What is "not helpful" abt treating all fake news similarly?
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Replying to @emptywheel @zeynep
Think tanks have churned out loads of fake news on Iraq, Libya, Syria. The strategy is to sell policies even with lies.
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Replying to @MaxAbrahms @emptywheel
Yet another, also different mechanism. Everything that is false is not the same mechanism.
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Replying to @zeynep @emptywheel
It is *intentionally* false to promote their political agenda. That is the definition of fake news in my opinion.
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Replying to @MaxAbrahms @emptywheel
Sheds no light to the "Trump endorsed by Pope" becoming lucrative via social media.
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Replying to @zeynep @emptywheel
How do you define fake news? I see it as lies propagated to help advance a political agenda.
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That is not the context or the definition in which it is being discussed right now.
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