«Fake news» is a moral panic (▻http://rationalreview.com/archives/29...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7008735
“Fake news” is a moral panic
Source: Foundation for Economic Education by Sam Dumitriu
“[F]ake news is too useful a narrative. Rather than face hard questions about candidate choice, voter disenchantment and campaign tactics, unsuccessful campaigns can blame social media for spreading misleading news stories. It’s useful for the New York Times to shift the focus on to fake stories about the Pope endorsing the Donald and away from their reporting of Hillary Clinton’s emails. And it’s useful as well for the other legacy media companies who compete with Facebook, Google and Twitter for ad revenue.” (04/12/18)
▻https://fee.org/articles/fake-news-is-a-moral-panic
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