Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
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.
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.