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How is this any different from TV, radio, newspapers or books? You have to trust the author to speak truth and the median to not censor.

Unless you are the ones writing a news story you have no idea who made it or what influenced it.

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It's a little different as Internet makes it far easier to target a user compared to classic means of propaganda especially excaberating the issue of identifying real news vs "fake" news. With TV and Newspaper there are less "anonymous" outlets for content and a system of oversight could be applied in theory. A WhatsApp forward or an FB post spreads like a virus with no clear source. It's trivial to spread lies and for a user to consume it.

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