• AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    No they didn’t. There’s a famous quote that in the early 20th century newspapers didn’t just report the news they made the news. Newspapers have always had “fake news” and they’ve always taken sides and had agendas

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      1 year ago

      It got so bad we had a war because of fake news, so we passed some laws to not let it happen again, then Ronald Reagan got those laws removed, and we are back after it.