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Fake News Is Propaganda
Fake News Is Propaganda
As a species, humans don't often like to admit that sometimes our brains still respond to the world through emotions, triggers, and switches which were pre-programmed into us millions of years ago. It is frightening to consider that our free will can so easily be manipulated without us really understanding how or why.
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This is a pretty fringe perspective on "fake news." It's border line conspiracy theory. The broad scope seems to be that you can't trust any media, particularly main stream media because they shape a story to portray one side more strongly than the other, therefore any attempt to filter blatant untruths (think pizzagate) is censorship. This is a patent false equivalency.