Sean Hannity, Fake Internet News and You

How to get an internet lie to the masses, in a few easy steps.

There are many items in Farhad Manjoo‘s column on truth, lies and the internet that could force you, us, anyone, into an almost unrecoverable state of digital existential despair. You can read it and weep for our collective turn from knowledge and all that here.

But there was also a serendipitous bit of contextualization, care of Sean Hannity, for Manjoo’s point on “lies as an institution:”

There are now entire sites whose only mission is to publish outrageous, completely fake news online (like real news, fake news has become a business).

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