• CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's amazing to me that they don't remember that "fake news" was a real legitimate criticism of the right before it was reappropriated by the right. Like, this wasn't that long ago, and it has to do with the trump administration. The thing they obsess over every detail of..

    • 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

    • Opposition [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Remember in 2016 /r/The_Donald dominated /all day after day, with yet another example of the media lying about Trump. They couldn't quit doing it, and the video evidence of it was right there in front of everyone's faces. This made the media and Clintonistas very angry indeed and they were not used to anyone talking back to them.