Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
by TeMPOraL on Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:42PM
(#22399738)
> I see the Amazon fake products problem as related to the social network fake news problem.
Brought it up elsewhere[0], but I think you're right in more than one way. Beyond publisher vs. platform issue, fake news are the digital equivalent to counterfeiting; they're to news - and in general, to information media[1] - what Amazon counterfeits are to physical products.
Brought it up elsewhere[0], but I think you're right in more than one way. Beyond publisher vs. platform issue, fake news are the digital equivalent to counterfeiting; they're to news - and in general, to information media[1] - what Amazon counterfeits are to physical products.
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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22399726
[1] - Which include all digital media and most physical books.