Monday, May 7, 2018

Mother of Fake News

‘Transparency’ is the Mother of Fake News - amazing article in nyt by one Stanley Fish

ok, not exactly amazing, considering adventures of the term fake news and what is going on with free speech on campuses and elsewhere over the last couple of years.

a few quotes
Fake news is in large part a product of the enthusiasm — not to say rage — for transparency and absolutely free speech.
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silence and the withholding and sequestering of speech may be useful and even necessary in some contexts, like the preparing of a report or maintaining of a marriage.
that should be enough to get an idea of what it is all about. but here's more:
by itself information doesn’t do anything; its effects depend on the motives of those who make use of it, and raw information (that is, data) cannot distinguish between benign and malign appropriations of itself.
это почти по-лениниски. диалектика. см. Партийная организация и партийная литература.

one last quote:
That is the world of fake news. It is created by the undermining of trust in the traditional vehicles of authority and legitimation — major newspapers, professional associations, credentialed academics, standard encyclopedias, government bureaus, federal courts, prime-time nightly news anchors.
интересно, что Структуру научных революций Куна практически одновременно пнул некий Errol Morris в Boston Review: Is There Such a Thing as Truth?. открыт сезон охоты на Куна?

upd 06/30/18: в развитие темы fake news/free speech - How Free Speech Is Being Used as a Weapon by Conservatives: As a result, many on the left have traded an absolutist commitment to free speech for one sensitive to the harms it can inflict.

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