Salon
•The war on fake news has backfired
71% Informative
Many former critics of fake news have dropped their concerns over disinformation and aligned with Donald Trump .
This shift exposes Big Tech and legacy media’s anti-fake-news campaigns as, at best, PR fluff, and at worst, efforts to silence dissent.
Elon Musk , a self-described Democrat , endorsed Trump and donated a staggering $250 million to his campaign.
Meta ’s attempt to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration reveals that power and profits, not a concern for truth or democracy, is what motivated billionaires to signal they were fighting fake news.
The war on fake news has backfired, entrenching the systems it sought to dismantle and deepening public skepticism of information.
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English
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