#100hardtruths

Fake News R Us

A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity

We Americans helped, or at least allowed, the internet/ourselves to produce the conditions where our president reflects the norms and values of that place that most of us more and more frequently call home. (from #100hardtruths #3: Trump is our rightful internet president)

Contents of this path:

  1. #3: Trump is our rightful internet president
  2. #6: today’s fixes to fake news are bogus
  3. #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economy
  4. #11: real apologies for #fakenews aggravate its symptoms
  5. #14: skepticism is a weapon and a quality
  6. #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material results
  7. #17: Barak Obama says “we won’t know what to protect”
  8. #28: face(book?) is best for people with pale skin
  9. #35, science is real
  10. #36, history is real
  11. #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information
  12. #43, emotional+rational resonances needed
  13. #47: good design and software mask bad credibility
  14. 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50
  15. #57, most Americans may conclude he’s a fake president
  16. #60, spot a #fakenews site in 10 steps
  17. #66, make sure to fact-check the trump archive
  18. #73, it’s about xenophobia, racism, and sexism
  19. #75, no time for fools
  20. #80, outlast virality
  21. #84, stage #fakenews events
  22. #89, ten (more!) superhardtruths about #100hardtruths (certainly not) needed