Fake Is Real

We came across on several social media platforms where everything seems to be a place in which views and conclusions are a mix of everything, of smart and sensible ones, of bashers and hate, and a lot of fake news that really change how we go about our day.

Entries in social media are a two-edge sword. It's really bothersome to think that a tool like Twitter or Facebook, a very good tool as a marketplace of ideas, can be corrupted easily. What is good can always be corrupted, and the philosophical foundation of these platforms are trying its best to make it a safe space without curtailing freedom of expression.

Which brings us to this question: should there be a need to censor social media? A lot of action lately has been made that brought down pages which spread disinformation and fake news on Facebook. And we hope a lot of these action will not move towards strict censorship, because we all need to listen to what others think, even if it does not agree with us.

In the end, disinformation is the enemy. Fake news now becomes a vehicle of propaganda machine to deliberately malign others, for a certain end that some derelicts wish to attain for self-gain. All medium must resist being used for these ends. Freedom of expression is not a rifle aimed at character assassination.

Fake is real. Fake news contain real agenda that we must recognize immediately, and deliberately.

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