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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would argue in the days before instant internet news and Twitter. Where you had set periods where news came out that there was a lot more time to fact check and a lot more effort. Now these reporters run screaming to their twitter accounts and so do their news organizations. Because of that they give huge credibility to the concept of not necessarily false news, but untrustworthy news.
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The internet certainly allows false or misleading sources to travel much faster than previous, just as accurate and correct sources do. But even old time news was prone to it. i.e.: after the Frank Slide, it was widely reported that virtually the entire town was wiped out. Even though that was totally incorrect, the belief persists today