Monday, 9 March 2020

Fake-Fake News is usually 'True' News

A double-negative is not the same as a positive - but the result may be a close approximation; or essentially very similar.

So, when the Establishment (i.e. 'Them' = governments, large corporations and institutions, or the mass media) label something as 'fake news' - and when these organisations are all themselves essentially fake and fundamentally dishonest - then we have the phoneomenon of Fake-Fake News.

Fake-Fake News =  
Accusation of Fake News, from a Fake source

How should we regard Fake-Fake news? - When a major global/ powerful/ wealthy/ influential entity starkly announces that X Is Fake (and, implicitly, therefore needs to be suppressed)?

We should, I suggest, regard it as - if not exactly 'true', because truth is seldom/ never known (especially not by these groups) - something this group believes to be essentially correct or to contain an important but unwanted fact.

In sum:

Fake-Fake News = Some-thing They believe to be true.