Misinformation isn’t a new thing.
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| A ridiculous falsehood about solar power self-replicated in the media. |
Perhaps (arguably) lies spread faster than they once did, catalysed by algorithmic machines created by Big Tech. But this narrative takes focus away from the massive and hulking old-school coal-powered engine of misinformation that is Australia’s old media landscape.
Renewable energy as a topic is the perfect mix of technical impenetrability and political melodrama to serve as clear illustration of the transmissibility of a morsel of bullshit in this system of publication and re-publication.
Read the RenewEconomy story by Ketan Joshi - “How a ridiculous falsehood about solar power self-replicated in media.”
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