Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Plato predicted ‘Pizzagate’ (or rather, fake news more generally)

Plato predicted ‘Pizzagate’ (or rather, fake news more generally)


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"In a culture where speech is free and all “opinions” are equal, it gets harder and harder for citizens to tell reputable from disreputable sources of news.

Distressingly, Plato tells us that this is a natural result of mature democracies."