[wallace_f]

>I'm not sure what the hell to believe anymore.

Exactly. So just bear in mind, when the war against independent media is won, your children won't have to worry about that. Then they will be told what is appropriate for them to see and hear, and by consequence, what to think.

Yes there's a lot of really shit people out there with a website and news headlines. That by itself is not a good reason to throw away the first amendment and grant the government and largest corporations the right to control what people see and hear. What's even more troubling, is there's no evidence that the majority of "fake news" is even what the mainstream media says it is. If you read this and don't believe me:

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/the-stark-contrast-betwe...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12997038

[75j]

You're preaching to the choir :) I find it totally revolting that the response from the left to Trump's election is to blame "fake news", as if it's possible for an algorithm or even a very intelligent human to determine with certainty what is real and what is fake, and as if the largest media organizations haven't themselves been pushing "fake news" for a long time now.

[wallace_f]

Yes, it is revolting. They're doubling down on their strategy, and with that we lose more of our civil rights. For fuck's sake will this train wreck be stopped?

Independent news is already marginalized and criminalized. Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald have had that happen to them. Wikileaks is being attacked like a criminal organization. Once all the people like that are dealt with there's nothing left. Rotten to the core.