Monday, July 3, 2017

David V. Gioe — The History of Fake News


Yep, fake news is a staple, manufactured by intel services.

The post is also a valuable lesson in critical thinking and the need for it in a liberal democracy — like American philosopher and educator John Dewey said.

Strategic Culture Foundation
The History of Fake News
David V. Gioe | Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he also serves as the History Fellow for the Army Cyber Institute. He is a former CIA analyst and operations officer, and he holds a commission as a Foreign Area Officer in the Navy Reserve

2 comments:

Noah Way said...

Georges Seldes first wrote about fake news in Freedom of the Press (1935), detailing accounts of newspaper fraud dating back to his first job as a reporter around 1910.

MRW said...

GOOD ARTICLE:

In an age of fake news, considering whether information is true is less important than whether it is useful for supporting a worldview, or discounting that of others. Thus, the utility of information is now more important than its veracity.