Until the day I die, I will not stop saying this.

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31. I'm dubious

The vast majority of what goes on using web enabled technologies is just old techniques updated.
Fake news has always existed. We used to call it "gossip". I WWII they had "rumor officers" whose job was to debunk yesterday's rumors and collect today's. Hearst was infamously purported to have instructed a photographer, "you furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war". He was Fox News before there was cable TV. Truth is, most of us "boomers" lived through the "golden age" of journalism. It was a rare time when much of journalism was considered "above" profit and seen as more of a "public service". It didn't last long. You can go back in time and find newspapers that included in their names "democrat" and "republican". That isn't by accident.

And you can find "collusion" in presidential politics at LEAST to Nixon. Truth is, Ike used the Korean war, and the negotiations at the time, to get elected.

The current technology has accelerated the rate of misinformation, but all that means is that the pace of correction/refutation/confrontation must increase. Campaigns and presidencies have been slow to learn this, but they will. Hillary, in her campaign against Obama, tried to warn him of what he was facing and he didn't listen. Strangely, Hillary wasn't sensitive to what the right would do to defeat her either.