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We shouldn’t presume that ‘fake news’ is only a problem when obvious lies are driving news stories. The opposite might in fact be the case. News stories that appear honestly reported but which omit important contextual information can be just as damaging if not more so than clear smear jobs, because there’s less inclination to expose falsehoods that are not perceived as being deceptions. __‘The most mischievous errors on record,’ the 19th-century romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge once wrote, are ‘half-truths taken as the whole.’__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
The idea will be to promote autonomy in the context of solidarity. Movements will retain their integrity and manage their own destinies regarding their priority oppressions. Yet, they will also function in the context of one another, crossing lines to battle residues of oppression within the left and also providing aid to one another whenever needed.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
Influenced by a diverse group of economists, including Chicago School economist George Stigler and Friedrich Hayek, and ‘Virginia School’ theorists such as James Buchanan, __mainstream economics has adopted a perverse reading of Adam Smith which claims that because special interest groups can and do exert undue influence on regulators, it is better to have very little regulation in place than to have ‘captured’ regulation.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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