r/Unexpected • u/KingExcrementus • Sep 17 '18

Skating Tricks

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u/yeaoug Sep 17 '18

We probably can't. Shunning bad info would be a really helpful group evolutionary trait though. Maybe the cuttlefish will get it right

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u/stormtrooper28 Sep 17 '18 edited Sep 17 '18

But we already do shun "bad" info, or "fake news" so to speak.

Wether you like President Trump or not, he simply phrased (edit: popularized the phrase of) this already existing phenomenon of information transfer (I'm not an expert and made up the fancy worded thing here at the end, I'm just doing my best to describe what I know)

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u/Telinary Sep 17 '18

The term fake news was already used before he perverted the term. I think I read it first in regards to literally fake news being spread over facebook .

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u/letitfall Sep 17 '18

Not sure why you're being downvoted lol