Fake News Can Cost Lives: A Lesson From the Cold War
Since the 2016 presidential campaign, the term “fake news” has made its way into the common conversation, along with all of its disturbing implications. But fake news not a new concept at all. It has been part of American politics since the mud-slinging, libelous Adams – Jefferson presidential race. Nor are its potentially dangerous consequences new. Far beyond simply covering up a sex scandal, burying financial “inconsistencies” or even protecting parties guilty of collusion, these have included McCarthyism in the 1950’s and the Vietnam war of the 1960s. Both were grounded in (and inflamed by) the fake news of their day – the Red Scare and the Gulf of Tonkin pretext.
In the cold war, behind the Iron Curtain, Hungarians lost their lives as a result of misinformation, demonstrating the slippery slope of fake news — from semi-harmless inconsistencies to false promises and perilous outcomes — a slope we are on the precipice of in our current political climate.
In the early 1950s, Lewis Galantière, an all-but-forgotten renaissance man and the subject of … Click HERE to continue reading
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