NPR: One of the largest fake news creators is a Liberal in Los Angeles

Charlie Martin:

Remember that the term fake news was originally invented to talk about stories being sent through the Internet that were intended to cause trouble and become viral. (Of course, now we all think that was “the Russians” but we actually know that it started with a liberal — if not leftist — who thought he could make a lot of money by playing on the credulity of the right wing — and sadly proved himself correct.)

The difference between Jestin Coler and CNN is that CNN is bigger and creates more fake news.

But there's a lesson here that is not obvious. You may hate the fact that you were duped by fake news, and once you realize that there's a lot of fake news out there you will learn to be careful. But it you allow someone else to decide for you who can talk, or say things - and that includes both truth and lies, you create an eve bigger problem.

Charlie Martin again:

Once we stop treating the Internet as just a medium like newsprint and start treating Internet hosting companies as publishers we make them vulnerable to oppressors and we can be sure that some of them will not have what we see as the “public good” in mind.

This is the lesson of Robespierre: once you establish that something may be done for you, you establish that it can be done to you.