[_trampeltier]

I couldn't find the comment again, but as somebody else said here on HN a while ago. The comment was like ..

We live in special times. Until 100 years ago we had just news from other people, mouth to mouth. So we had to decide what is wright and what just BS. Last 100 years we had newspapers, radio and TV. News was mostly true, we could trust what we saw on pictures, on screen. But now again .. pictures can so easy be just fake. So we have to decide again, what is true and what BS:

[TaylorAlexander]

> News was mostly true

100 years ago was the time of yellow journalism, where lies were commonplace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

[mistrial9]

this timeline is way off .. intellectuals of the mid-1600 in certain places got news from all over the world. There were contests between language groups in all the major sciences and engineering. The printing press was beginning mass produced content.. that was all a solid 500+ years ago