There’s tons of other fakes out there, not to mention fakes of fakes designed to discredit doubters or just spread chaos. Ultimately, it’s all a timely reminder that propaganda is at its most potent at times where the news is moving fast and people are feeling emotional.
[off-guardian.org]
Getting information from the internet has been likened to drinking from a fire hose. The problem is that there is too much and most of it is toxic. But if you have a decent filter, what John Boyd called Orientation and Hyrum Smith called a World-View Window, then it becomes possible to separate the false from the real, but only with great effort.