[ExI] fars rips off the onion

[Anders Sandberg]

On 29/09/2012 01:33, spike wrote:
>
> This has to be the funniest thing that has happened in years.  The 
> Iranian news agency FARS has ripped a story from the Onion, and 
> reported it as fact:
>
> http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/iranian-news-agency-plagiarizes-the-onion/
>
>

This is satire as its best. This is what any satirist lives for.


And like all good satire there is a deep point aimed back at us too: how 
do we know or trust anything either? News media can be fooled outside 
Iran too, and it happens fairly regularly. From New York Times to Social 
Text, checking that facts are true or at least arguments sound, is 
pretty hard.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University

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