Ken Burns: There's always been fake news

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, co-director of the documentary The US and the Holocaust, said, we could “essentially steer you clear of the dangerous siren song of this disinformation” with modest discipline of receiving information from trust worthy sources.
Following a screening of a special 44-minute version of the film at UN Headquarters, he spoke about fake news and how it is embedded in human nature.

[.-gz]

😳 ...that moment when you realize that your public service announcement describes yourself

[TheBatugan]

“You furnish the pictures, I'll provide the war!”
- Hearst, circa 1898.

[catherinewhitman]

Why is it so hard for people to tell the

[healdogtoec]

Easy to do if you are willing to try and do it. Unfortunately some are devoted to misinformation.

[richardgillette]

Oh no he changed his 8 year old boy haircut

[chrisbutler]

Watching one mainstream news source is a great way to get a lot of fake news unfortunately.

[scottprather]

Not hard to do the problem is people won't do it they're addicted to their grievance culture

[BuffaloC]

Lenin used a variety of pen-names for revolutionary papers, often being most outrageous as The Other Side's horrible spokesman, pushing more folks to Lenin's Bolsheviks. He ended up leading the revolution with "Lenin" because that was his most popular pen-name.

[reubenhandel]

His announcement that he wouldn't publish the truth about Jan 6th really kills credibility going forward

[timfronimos]

Love this films and agreed with this message until I saw a UN logo at the end

[johnprovince]

I lost all respect for Ken Burns when he reedited The Civil War 25 years later to bring it into line with current Woke sensibilies. A total sell out.