Deliberate creation of "fake news" is a new trend that may have contributed to polarization of society, especially in poor countries at the edge of the first world like Macedonia http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/macedonian-teen-claims-trump-supporters-paid-him-60k-to-produce-fake-news-during-campaign_us_584ac403e4b0bd9c3dfc51b7 On the other hand we have classic media like the NY Times or Huffington Post to distinguish between real news and fake news, so it might just be an attempt to increase censorship and to constrain freedom of speech. -Jochen
-------- Original message --------From: Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> Date: 12/10/16 05:59 (GMT+01:00) To: Friam <Friam@redfish.com> Cc: David West <da...@transcendencecorporation.com> Subject: [FRIAM] Please Help. Was it a dream? Dear FF’s (Fellow Friammers) Since the election, I have bothered you all, individually and collectively, to consider, given the web’s role in the balkanization of our political discourse, what the web’s role might be in knitting us back together again. At some point in the last ten days, one of you sent me a link to a website that was doing something like that. I opened it, was amazed, intrigued, but could not explore it at the time. AND NOW I CAN NOT FIND IT. Does any of you remember what I am talking about? Ah to have a pink brain again. Nick Nicholas S. ThompsonEmeritus Professor of Psychology and BiologyClark Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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