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Fake news is never paywalled.

Ha, that's fake news right there.

Is it? I'm trying to think of actual fake news sites with a paywall and I'm drawing a blank. They generally seem to want to cast as wide a net as possible in hopes of catching some gullible rubes and selling them nutritional supplements.

This is one of the biggest problems with news currently.

Big breaking story about US politics? New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post all have important articles about it. You find them linked in Google News, reddit, Hacker News, and Facebook. And they're all behind paywalls.

But if you get your "news" from Fox News, Infowars, or even farther extreme sites like Stormfront.... it's free and instantly accessible. This causes some serious problems.

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