Wrong information is used to argue wrong ideas

In previous decades, most media with global reach consisted of several major newspapers and networks which had the resources to gather information directly.Outlets like Reuters and the Associated Pressthat aggregate or rereport stories were relatively rare compared to today.The speed with which information spreads now has created the ideal conditions for a phenomenon known as circular reporting.This is when publication A publishes misinformation,publication B reprints it,and publication A then cites Bas the source for the information.It's also considered a form of circular reporting when multiple publications report on the same initial piece of false information,which then appears to another author as having been verified by multiple sources.