volume, perhaps.
> Do you support fake news or do you support the construction of a censorship apparatus?
in one sense, there isn't really any difference.
To your second point, that's just nonsense.
I do think that's a big part of it. However, there is some aura of authenticity that comes from social media postings that link to official looking sites. Not for people that are somewhat internet savvy, but there is a group that's being somewhat fooled in way they weren't in the past.
having grown up in small towns, no fudd i knew had a computer, much less an aol account. (and this was in the era of aol discs clogging the mail system.)
> To your second point, that's just nonsense.
"fake news" is censorship through displacement and delegitimization.
censorship is "fake news" by virtue of providing incomplete or distorted information (eg, lies of omission).