The #fakenews about Iraqi WMD DID get hundreds of thousands killed. https://twitter.com/peterwsinger/status/806126607740104704 …
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I bet audience for the current stuff has fairly little concern about the Iraq war failures—why mechanisms impt.
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Even assuming that's true (depending on def of "concern," I'd disagree, esp since these people staff military)... @ThusBloggedA
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... why is it less of a problem that people w/more direct impact on policy consumer their own fake news? @ThusBloggedA
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Didn't say less of a problem. Said different mechanism; conflation obscures what analysis needs to do.
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@emptywheel's stature so nat you wont respond—typical—but wasn't#AhmadChalabi peddling fakenews? SAME. @ThusBloggedApic.twitter.com/wEYj3CgnnM
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Not the same thing. Not all falsehoods come through the same mechanism.
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