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A comment on YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke. Parent comment
If you're thinking that 'society used to be able to tell what was a lie from the truth' I'm sorry to say but that was never close to being true.
Newspapers were a pretty strong filter of information and therefore could have some kind of 'rough' credibility, biases notwithstanding obviously.
But with 'every Instagram a source of news' ... we have an existential truthiness problem that we're only beginning to learn to deal with.
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If you're thinking that 'society used to be able to tell what was a lie from the truth' I'm sorry to say but that was never close to being true.
Newspapers were a pretty strong filter of information and therefore could have some kind of 'rough' credibility, biases notwithstanding obviously.
But with 'every Instagram a source of news' ... we have an existential truthiness problem that we're only beginning to learn to deal with.