I agree people can be too liberal to call earnest errors fake news but u seem to think WaPo, by definition, cannot publish fake news
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @zeynep
or that mens rea is limited just to Macedonia troll holes rather than ideological pressure to publish bad things about Russia.
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I agree there is a spectrum of failure; it all matters. It's just not the same thing. Let's not conflate it all.
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this is pure tautology. Your definition of "fake news" omits traditional news outlets without any objective reason to do so.
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simply because you assume their editorial process is entirely lacking in bad faith. Which i don't think is always true.
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Gullibility & editorial bad faith still distinguishable from fabrication by (sometimes ideologically disinterested) parties.
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I'm not absolving traditional media failures (or not realizing that they are jumping on fake news as bandwagon) but that...
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Calling everything "fake news" doesn't help understand the spectrum of failure, with many modalities (and some overlaps).
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let me try to pin it down. WaPo publishes oped by McCain saying US has"done nothing" in Syria despite them spending billions on oppo
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it is 100% factually false to say US has "done nothing" in Syria.Yet its published (as oped but fact checked) is this not fake news?
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No, of course not. This is a legitimate political opinion. The "nothing" is in reference to something specific.pic.twitter.com/yP1Hss6J52
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lol no it's not. That Obama has "done nothing to stop" Russia & Syria is objectively false. CIA has armed and funded the opposition.
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I disagree with McCain on substance but... It's legit political opinion to say that in reference to Aleppo.
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