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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by Nadya on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:00PM (#13039040)
Just a narrative being peddled [0]. The mainstream media lost their grip on "the people" so now need to brand anything that isn't themselves as "fake news". Google Trends shows how blatantly obvious the narrative crafting is. It's only suddenly an issue because the MSM needs it to be. So within a very short amount of time you see MSM like the NYT or WaPo posting articles about 'Fake News' and getting everyone to start talking about it.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/lWjnRqt.png

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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by pcwalton on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:25PM (#13039194)
Fake news started spiking in Google Trends around the election because that is when fake news became profitable.

We are talking about blatant spam sites in which the owners openly admitted to making up stories out of whole cloth.

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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by dualogy on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:05PM (#13039067)
Sure. Exactly. I just added a /s to my post.. ;)
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