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There has been quite a global scare about “fake news” — articles, pictures and videos that purport to be the real thing, but are in fact the invention of those attempting to undermine traditional news sources. US President Donald Trump is at the forefront of publicly trashing “fake news” — and at the forefront of disseminating it. His counsellor, Kellyanne Conway, even has a name for it: “alternative facts”. Unsurprisingly, the ready band of assault Twitternistas who spend their time denigrating the establishment (until it pays them to stop, of course) have predicted that “fake news” will kill the establishment news media. In fact, the opposite is true.
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