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No matter what happens in the 2020 election, this chapter of American history could well be called the "fake news age." So I went back to the beginning... to the "fake" origins... http://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/media/fake-news-age/index.html
All the anti-media attacks and Covid denialism, all the pro-Trump propaganda and all the assertions that you shouldn't believe your own eyes and ears — I argue that it's all rooted in Trump's insistence that news is "fake." He made the claim for the first time on Jan. 11, 2017...
On that day, @CraigSilverman couldn't believe HIS ears. He had been studying and exposing truly "fake" news, made-up stories, for years. Suddenly Trump has hijacked the term. The two of us took a trip down memory lane for this week's RS podcast http://cnn.com/audio/podcasts/reliable-sources
He said it's a prime "case study in how our information environment works." Trump exploited the term "fake news;" aspiring autocrats around the world used it as a cudgel; and so "our ability to actually have a focused conversation about, you know, actual fake news" was impaired.
Key insight from @CraigSilverman: Trump "understood very early on that in a crowded field of candidates, and in a crowded and oversaturated information environment, EXTREME wins." The stuff that was supposed to disqualify him, helped him. Will it, again? http://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/media/fake-news-age/index.html
