To other mainlanders, just add this filter to your ublock and go on with your life. Life is too short, and there's too much interesting stuff to learn, to spend time arguing this stuff.
America is really fucked if we can't curb the spread of disinformation by bad actors. Does anybody know if any there is any action being taken by politicians and lawmakers to work on a solution for this? It's becoming increasingly clear that total freedom of speech does not work in the modern world.
The problem is we have this idea all sides must neccesarily be given equal credence to make it freedom of speech. This has made the voices of the fringe appear larger than what they really are.
> “Most people just read to kill time. Who is going to investigate? No one will. It only passes your eyes—there’s no need to pin down if it’s real or fake.”
> “Correctness doesn’t exist, because it’s always relative,”
> I asked Deng why he thought the piece had resonated with such a large audience. “It’s purely made up, to be honest with you,” Deng replied. “It’s all made up. I’m not sure if I did the right thing. My boss asked me to write it. I think, if a new-media outlet wants to move people, you have to make them feel that it’s real.”
OK, I think I get it now. "Post-Truth" content is how you cultivate nihilism in both your readers and writers while simultaneously making a buck and increasing the stability of your authoritarian government. What a corrosive enterprise.
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Don't ignore what your government is doing.
> “Correctness doesn’t exist, because it’s always relative,”
> I asked Deng why he thought the piece had resonated with such a large audience. “It’s purely made up, to be honest with you,” Deng replied. “It’s all made up. I’m not sure if I did the right thing. My boss asked me to write it. I think, if a new-media outlet wants to move people, you have to make them feel that it’s real.”
OK, I think I get it now. "Post-Truth" content is how you cultivate nihilism in both your readers and writers while simultaneously making a buck and increasing the stability of your authoritarian government. What a corrosive enterprise.