What can we do to combat the influx of fake news?

What can we do to combat the influx of fake news?

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Actual fake news websites, like the Onion, are so obviously fictional you've got a be genuine mongoloid to be convinced any of it is real. Banning these websites would be blantent violation of free speech and completely pointless in the first place, might as well ban comic books because superheros don't exist

You realize that this "fake news" bullshit was all started by a Clinton supporter, right?

don't read news

form your own opinions and get the bare minimum of information

Fake news is a real problem as documented by major and reputable media networks. I trust their opinion above those parroting sources like info wars or breitbart

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You start by attacking "fakes news" at it's source.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

>"fake news" is actually just news from sources that present a viewpoint different from liberal mainstream media

Just destroy the media completely, anyone can put out statements online if they want to tell people something, raw video footage is usually more informative than anything news crews record, the media has little value now so they resort to clickbait or selling themselves for propaganda.

All news is fake news, there is no other way to put it.
Trying to fight an eternal constant is a waste.

Get a chuckle then pay for my groceries.

stop reading the WaPo and the NYT, stop watching Fox, CNN, etc., etc.
and use Common Sense™ 2018©

>if Alex Jones says it, it must be true

Avoid fake news like CNN, Fox News or MSNBC

give Mark Shekelburg keys to our new Ministry of Truth?

All news is fake news.
Everything has been fake news for decades.

Except one of the guys that runs a huge portion of these sites does it to make conservatives look stupid, he's said so in interviews

Look it's working

theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/
The problem is that media that should be trustful spread fake news and are unreliable nowadays.

Imagine when you start talking about feminism or another subject. Those journalists will just say shit to not be seen as sexists or racist or something else and sacrifice the quality

Fake news were there for generations

It's just with this election they were trying very fucking hard to the point many people saw through it.

> Saddam has nukes/WMDs
> Gaddafi is gonna genocide Libyan citizens for some reason
> Assad is gonna genocide his people for some reason
> we are arming "moderate" "rebels" who are in no way possibly the "J.V. team" a.k.a. ISIS a.k.a. for no apparent reason ISIL
> our giving Iran billions in gold/cash is not paying a ransom
> the election is completely safe from hacking and you're a threat to democracy to say otherwise, unless we lose

turning off MSM "news" would be a good start.

The Onion is fun, why would you get rid of it?

that said, every piece of "real" news supports an obvious agenda, and people who can't see throught the bullshit, don't deserve any better.