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Comment by zaroth | Hacker News Reader

Free Speech by another name. The fakest thing about stories about fake news are the stories themselves. The whole thing is so meta.

To anyone who thinks this is somehow a new phenomenon, please see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

Self aware readers of all news anywhere know the truth; it's all "fake" it's just a matter of degree and perspective.

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Fake news stories about Clinton running a child sex ring out of a DC pizza parlor isn't a matter of "degree" or "perspective"

“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.” ― Jacques Derrida

How much of this episode of BBC's Storyville about Gaddafi true and verifiable, true and unverfiable, and made-up blood libel? Which part of it is a matter of degree, and which part is a matter of perspective?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-r...

Do you remember what we used to call all the behavior that Snowden confirmed was true, before he confirmed it? The Snowden revelations are a hell of a lot more shocking to my conscious than "Pizza Gate". It's absolutely a matter of degree and perspective.

When conspiracy theories about politicians are illegal, then any critical public discourse about politicians is equally illegal. It seems to me only willful ignorance in search of political gain could explain an alternate position.

There is "twisting" the truth to implicitly convey a certain narrative, and then there are outright lies. Do not confuse the two: the "trash" news sites that publish blatant lies for ad profit are very real, and a bigger problem than bias in real journalism.

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