Western enlightenment for ya I guess.

  • unperson [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    3 years ago

    Domino meme.

    Small domino: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide"
    Large domino: Facebook will allow posts calling for violence against Russians, calls for Putin's death

    Who'd have known "fake news" would get here this fast.

    • CyberMao [it/its]
      ·
      edit-2
      3 years ago

      :kulinski-pog:

      Also, reminder that Hillary used “fake news” in a speech before Trump did and that speech was aired on Fox that night during prime time, which Trump always watched

      • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Yeah Fake News was a Liberal phrase before it got coopted by the chuds. It wasn’t hard to turnaround on them since American mainstream news is completely fake dogshit

      • unperson [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        3 years ago

        Indeed, that was exactly my point.

        I call "fake news" not to the intentional massive dissemination of false or slanted narratives by itself, because that latter phenomenon is old as history and not novel enough to warrant a new term. "Fake news" to me is actually the opposite: the only thing that's new in "fake news" is that, thanks to the Internet, most people now have access to non-curated narratives; people can now form their own truth and therefore evaluate official narratives as "fake". It's like masses of people are spontaneously discovering media literacy on their own. I have hope in this, even though right now this massive distrust is not congealing in actual critical reading.

        The… let's call it revolutionary response to this would be to bridge the gap in education that prevents the masses from reading critically. The reactionary response however to this was the institution of the "fact checker". The fact checker was never going to work because they attempt to derive legitimacy from credentials, in an environment in which precisely credentialed sources are perceived as "fake".

        The fact checker is a contradictory, reactionary attempt to preserve the old truth, but the old truth is sometimes explicitly "fake" so the fact checker was always bound to be sometimes explicitly fake.