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M Flood's avatar

Thank you for these valuable summaries, Dan. I hope you will delve deeper into the utility of the "disinformation story" for journalists, politicians, and academics. You mention it's use for discrediting social media, mainstream journalisms competitor. I wonder about the psychological protection it provides as well: people of a progressive/liberal bent can admit that they did not understand the world, but they would have still been right if not for those meddling disinformation peddlers. The explanations for Brexit and Trump's election seem to fit this - it cannot be the case that many, many people were unhappy with the status quo and took an option to express that unhappiness.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

The problem with "fake news" studies is that upon inspection much of the "fake news" they list turns out to not in fact be fake.

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