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by tangent128 2991 days ago
Willful ignorance offers a pretty big loophole to that definition.

If you don't fact check information, nobody can say you know it's false.

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Yes. Perfect actually. Then if you don't fact check it can't be presented as news.

I think also we could apply the (legal) concept of "reasonable and customary." If say the rest of the (media) industry reported X, Y and Z and you only did Y then that's not reasonable and customary.

No doubt there's grey area. But as it is, we're living in a "brown area" if you know what I mean ;)