[liberationtech] Fake News

[F LM]

As someone who doesn't live in the US, I find this whole "fake news" issue somehow confusing. 

It seems to me that it's a very wide concept created by media like The Guardian, NYT, etc., in order to discredit certain efforts by Trump supporters to influence voters based on false information (social media profiles, online articles, etc.). However, as time goes by, I see fake news coming out more and more from that same left-wing propaganda machine with misinformation, highly-biased pieces and more often than not, blatantly false reports.

What are the first public mentions of this controversial concept in the press? Perhaps that would give me a bit more of light.

FL

> On 11-01-2017, at 00:27, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o at rudd-o.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/09/2016 04:51 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
>> Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media)
>> news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
> 
> The election was influenced by fake media alright, but the victory in
> the U.S. elections is *despite* the fake media, not because of it.
> 
> Fake media — CNN, WaPo, The Times., all that brainwashing nonsense — 
> was basically against the winner.  He won nonetheless.
> 
> *shruggie*
> 
> I don't have to live with that result, but it's the truth.
> 
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