• DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Even before that, it was part of Democratic messaging to delegitimize non-corporate progressive and leftist news sources on social media. Misinformation from Fox News has been a thing for decades, but “fake news” was originally a conflation of intentionally inaccurate clickbait and actual left-leaning political commentary gaining traction without corporate gatekeepers. As I remember it, the online misinformation divide at the point was less partisan and more about young vs old