Video: How Real Is Fake News?
In this TEDx talk -- an independently organized TED talk -- an investigative journalist blows the whistle on Google, Facebook, and the mainstream media.
She followed the money back to Google. Then Facebook chipped in.
She says that the campaign begun in 2016 in preparation for the presidential campaign blew up in their faces. Why? Because Donald Trump started crying "fake news" every time the media tried to pull a fast one. He soiled the term. She calls this a hostile takeover. Very droll.
She says that there is a new phrase on the horizon: "media literacy." It has the same goal: to limit the flow of politically correct information.
The only weakness in this talk is her failure to trace fake news back to the politics in late 18th-century colonial America. As a certified historian of that era, I assure you that fake news was closer to The National Inquirer in 1776 than it is today. If you were on the wrong side of a political movement, you got arrested or had your press destroyed in some communities.