"fake news"

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Anyone else annoyed at how fake news articles are being addressed? I know that some news is fake but it feeds into conspiracy theories when claims are dismissed outright without addressing the arguments being made. I see the adjectives "ridiculous" and "bizarre" being used about conspiracy theories that actually seem plausible to me (and many other people).

Psychologists know that the best way to address paranoia is to listen with an open mind. Actually people like myself who get paranoid from time to time are comfortable with being attacked. We like to prove others wrong. We don't like to be agreed with. Being agreed with is uncomfortable for people who are truly paranoid. Calling a paranoid person paranoid only makes them stronger.

Having said that I think it's pretty obvious that news is biased. So why doesn't MSM just admit they are biased? They don't have the monopoly on truth and shouldn't pretend that they do.

I have never had problems with fake news, but that is partially because i'm trained to recognize it for what it is.

It does annoy me that it is so often mixed in with real news, and presented in the same format, which allows people with less relevant training to fall for it.

Automatically filtering fake news from real news is quite hard, i can't think of any set criteria that would allow for a macro, but as a person, it is easy.
The best defense against fake news is to teach "validity assessment skills" at school, the earlier the better.

Fake news is what you see on cable TV, the people who lied us into Iraq and worked directly with the Clinton campaign during the election.