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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > How do we fight against dangerous misinformation?
 
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Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

 Misinformation has always existed, but now it just comes from multiple sources, so that people who listen to one form of misinformation (like the mainstream media that lies to support US wars, etc) are capable of recognizing the misinformation they don't participate in. In the past when the only sources of information were traditional television/print, that misinformation wasn't really viewed as misinformation because almost everyone believed it and trusted it. Now you have new sources of misinformation popping up (through the internet, or strongly partisan TV news), and people who aren't part of their target audience are capable of recognizing that because it's not from a source they trust or identify with (but these same people usually aren't capable of recognizing lies or distortions that come from, say, WaPo).

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