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Is fake news the reality of the future?
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Nonetheless, I think, false stories will always be somewhat easy to determine to be false: when the media is not controlled by the government, there will always be multiple sources making various claims, and by performing a survey over those stories and matching them with the known data, it is not too hard to determine the truth. As the fact-checking industry grows and as it slowly becomes more and more automatized, eventually it will become very difficult to get away with outright making stories up.
Rather than outright faking news, as Russia does, I think what China does is more likely to dominate the media space in the future. China does not lie about what happens, it simply employs a lot of logical fallacies and psychological techniques to paint the news in colors that the party deems matching the societal ideology.
How Chinese media presented the suppression of Tibetian demonstrations in 2008 is a great example of that. They did not lie about the events there, and they admitted to brutality of the suppressing forces - however, the way the information was presented, even though not outright stating it, created the impression that brute force was the only way to prevent the uprising from spreading further from Tibet. Chinese media did not lie about the governmental actions, they simply looked at them from a heavily biased pro-governmental perspective.
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