News Of A National ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Network Was A Media Fabrication

America got bamboozled yesterday, courtesy of an unintentional media fabrication: the government is not building a super-fast national Wi-Fi network. A somewhat confusing feature in The Washington Post about a few loosely connected government initiatives about greater access to faster Wi-Fi got twisted into a story about a plan to create a so-called "Super Wi-Fi" network. What ensued looked like a game of telephone between hair-trigger media outlets.

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