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Re:Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995) by mtberatwork on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:12PM (#20054232)
> the idea of a blogger or YouTuber doing this - just, say, declaring that the government has announced something without providing any corroboration

This is literally what Alex Jones does.

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Re:Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995) by XCabbage on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:22PM (#20057219)
Does InfoWars count as "alternative media"? I mean, it's clearly not "mainstream", but the format - the medium - is no different to a mainstream news show. I wouldn't've thought it fell into either of the two categories we're discussing.
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