When I was halfway through this and read about the 4 stages, they immediately seemed to me to correspond to four types of news reporting:
Accurate reporting
Misleading reporting (i.e. distorting real events, and fooling many people)
Fake news (i.e. completely made up, but still pretending to be news, and fooling some people)
Obviously false or ‘pure fiction’ (i.e. not even pretending to be news, and fooling no-one). You do get this kind of thing in the crappiest tabloids like the UK’s Sunday Sport or maybe the US’s National Enquirer. A well-known example in the UK was the front-page headline ‘Freddie Starr [a TV comedian] ate my hamster’. (Such absurd stories evade the UK’s strong libel laws if no reasonable person would believe them, so the more outrageous, the better.)
Which isn’t exactly what the post is about, but might be a useful analogy, or source of terminology.
When I was halfway through this and read about the 4 stages, they immediately seemed to me to correspond to four types of news reporting:
Accurate reporting
Misleading reporting (i.e. distorting real events, and fooling many people)
Fake news (i.e. completely made up, but still pretending to be news, and fooling some people)
Obviously false or ‘pure fiction’ (i.e. not even pretending to be news, and fooling no-one). You do get this kind of thing in the crappiest tabloids like the UK’s Sunday Sport or maybe the US’s National Enquirer. A well-known example in the UK was the front-page headline ‘Freddie Starr [a TV comedian] ate my hamster’. (Such absurd stories evade the UK’s strong libel laws if no reasonable person would believe them, so the more outrageous, the better.)
Which isn’t exactly what the post is about, but might be a useful analogy, or source of terminology.