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Breeding cynicism: Real news may be more corrosive than fake news

Too much information can lead to a cynical population that expects little from its leaders

Breeding cynicism: Real news may be more corrosive than fake news
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Misinformation, fake news and rumours are all on the rise around implementation of GST, even as the countdown clock to the deadline ticks away.

Tyler Cowen | Bloomberg
As problematic as “fake news” is, and as dangerous as the label can be, maybe “true news” is equally corrosive. The contemporary world is giving us more reality and more truth than we can comfortably handle – and that, as much as the lack of a common enemy since the end of the Cold War, may explain the decline of the liberal world order that I lamented in a recent column.

Fake news, after all, has been with us for a long time, whether in the form of overly optimistic dispatches from the Vietnam War or reports of Paul McCartney’s death.

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