Fake news is not the real problem
&gt; The real problem isn’t fake news; it’s that people have given up on that search for truth.<p>This is where it almost gets profound. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt pointed out, in his &quot;On Bullshit&quot;, that the greatest danger isn&#x27;t lack of truth or even direct falsehoods - it is when we give up searching for truth, or don&#x27;t care about speaking truthfully. I.e. Bullshit.<p>However, whatever the people can do to demand rigour and educate themselves on the matters, pales next to a media trying to hold itself to standards. When the media gives up, we are in dire straits indeed, if not utterly lost.<p>Where I am from in Europe, we have pretty good media standards. But at least one of our biggest newspapers is actively working to muddle the waters for a party.<p>Without being any kind of expert, other nations do not seem so well off.