Censorship exists to protect bad ideas from public scrutiny. Because it is effectively a toxic four-letter notion, governments in thrall to the control of information that members of the public can freely access have taken to an entirely new typology. ‘Fake news’ is news that’s made up as an act of mischief, including false reports of deaths, affairs, birth certificates etc.
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