I think the real problem here is that the pejorative term “Fake news” is succumbing to an effect I mentioned down in the comments earlier.
if you did have a system for enforcing epistemological standards, the first thing everyone would think is “Wow that’s great, how can I subvert this system to further my object-level preferences?”
Now that’s not to say that there isn’t a real phenomenon of inaccurate or totally fabricated news, but I think the term “Fake News” (“Fake News Outlet”) particularly lends itself to being used as a bludgeon to attack the other side, because it’s really satisfying to catch one inaccurate story on a site you disagree with and thereby write the rest of the content off as “Fake News”.
I think the real problem here is that the pejorative term “Fake news” is succumbing to an effect I mentioned down in the comments earlier.
Now that’s not to say that there isn’t a real phenomenon of inaccurate or totally fabricated news, but I think the term “Fake News” (“Fake News Outlet”) particularly lends itself to being used as a bludgeon to attack the other side, because it’s really satisfying to catch one inaccurate story on a site you disagree with and thereby write the rest of the content off as “Fake News”.
“succumbing”? It succumbed to that effect decades ago.