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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2019 09:30:18 EDT Strypey

   @jgmac1106 to be fair, those 10 websites spread the most "fake news" because they are largest hosts of user-generated content. If all the users of those 10 websites moved to the #fediverse, then that would become the largest online source of "fake news". It's worth remembering that long before the web #BBS, #UseNet, and #IRC communities were sources of "fake news", and before the net, it came from tabloids, fringe magazines (like #Nexus), zines, samizdat pamphlets, and so on. It's not new.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2019 09:33:15 EDT Strypey

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      @jgmac1106 it's also important to remember that terms like "fake news" and "pseudoscience" are remarkable hard to clearly define, and that they are, at times, just euphemisms for what might more honestly be called secular #heresy.