The War on Fake News by Anthony Freda
Fake News by Anthony Freda As it becomes increasingly clear that yesterday’s conspiracy theories are today’s real news, the call to kill the messengers just gets more shrill and hysterical. The attacks on free speech with high-tech censorship campaigns and old-fashioned hit pieces in the "War on Fake News" are massive and concerted. The book burners are starting so many fires it’s impossible to stamp them all out. What are the horrible thought crimes committed by the alternative press? The new media has consistently exposed the lies and crimes of our corrupt and broken institutions. Pioneers of alt media have passionately and convincingly made the case that The Patriot Act literally reversed the gains to human liberty codified in The Bill of Rights. Independent media dismantled the lies that were presented as the pretexts to the invasion of Iraq. The same lies aggressively promoted by Bush, Hillary Clinton, CNN and The New York Times and