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Agree with everything, but one point worth remembering - leaks aren't 'Fake News'. Genuine leaks are just facts, it's up to the public to decide whether they're news or not.
The way to fix this, and the only way for governments to 'win' in the long term is to actually concede that they need to become more transparent regarding their own people. And they need to fly straight, as they fecking well should.
At present, footballers and mindless celebrities are scrutinized more than the people we allow to govern over us, and it isn't healthy, for us or them.
It's hilarious that people have been so easily coaxed into focusing solely on 'the Russians', rather than the content that 'the Russians' (or whoever) actually leaked, it's crazy.
"Hey, mate, here's a text from your missus to another bloke", 'hey baby, this affair is great, I love the sex we have behind my husband's back'
"...hang on a minute, did you go in my missus' bag to get that text!? You bastard!"
One might presume that the text is being willfully ignored, because it's a much bigger problem to admit we've got than simply blaming the guy who showed it to us.
Agreed, and trying to smear the wikileaks dump as fake damaged the credibility of Clinton's campaign. Especially when next day she answered specific questions about the contents of the emails, indirectly verifying them.