Kevin, thanks for the response. I meant “fake news” there in the original sense, referring to things like the widely-shared article claiming the Pope endorsed Trump. I.e., false news. I agree that when Trump calls CNN “fake news” a political slur, that’s different.

I do think the right is more susceptible to both fake and distorted news, because of its anti-institutional perspective. However, I’m not asserting that as a matter of formal logic. It’s my position.

The problem that crosses both sides of the political spectrum is the growing refusal to accept there *is* such a thing as truth. People treat information as bullshit, in philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s sense: not lies, but with disregard for truthfulness. That of course, was the attack Ian Bogost lobbed at gamification at the workshop I hosted back in 2011. I actually think that here, attentiveness to gamification could be helpful, because it focuses us on the rules of the game and the intentions of the game designers.