“Fake news spreads ‘farther, faster, deeper’ than truth.” That ominous claim comes from a recent Washington Post headline, warning readers about the “spread of false rumors.”
The “fake news” moniker — President Trump’s useful descriptor of longstanding media bias — has now been hijacked by anti-Trumpers to vilify him and conservative viewpoints writ large.
Guardian columnist Lucia Graves recently accused President Trump of weaponizing “fake news” as a way to “distort truth.” Why? To “sew distrust in the institution of media.” In her words, the term “fake news” poses an existential “threat to democracy.”
Read more at Western Journal.
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