• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    I don’t like the headline description of this because I really hate the term “fake news”, given who originated it (or at least who popularized it). Reading the article though, CA seems to refer to it as “media literacy”, which seems more apt, that or “critical thinking skills” would be so much better. Just anything other than the term “fake news”.

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      2 years ago

      Can we call the skills “media literacy” and “critical thinking”… and call fake news what it is: propaganda?

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      He didn’t originate that term. He claims that he did and he appropriated it, but it was in existence long before he started using it.

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        it was in existence long before he started using it.

        Notably, in late 30s Germany by a pretty infamous man.

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        You’re saying… Donald saying he created something……
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        Fake news?
        (I’ll see myself out,)