Fake news and its dimensions

Complicated social phenomena behind it

Suddenly, the word on practically everyone’s lips is “fake news”. In a simpler, less combative era, we would merely wag our finger, cluck our tongue and exclaim, “What exaggeration!” when we encountered something similar in a newspapers, radio or TV. And if the person or outfit did it often enough, we would tell him to go easy on “such propaganda”. But, now, “fake news” conjures up visions of manipulative, bearded nerds preying on innocent news readers on behalf of equally manipulative politicians. The anxiety about fake news is of the same level as small-pox or TB in an earlier era.

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