Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (How to Create Fake News)
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator is a unnervingly simple walkthrough of how to take a fake news story from something you thought of on your couch to the front page of major newspapers everywhere. Written by Ryan Holiday, it’s a very interesting reframing of citizen journalism, lazy reporting and reblogging culture as a whole. Having seen enough erroneous news stories that have been traced back to a single errant blog post, it is also (unfortunately) quite accurate.
(via Brain Pickings)
