Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
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Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
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Re: Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
#2This hits the nail on the head in calling out news reporting sites who don't fact check or truthfully report a topic. Its incredible how far from the actually story the Apple recycled gold headline deviates and really makes you wonder if citing so called reputable sources is even valid in some cases.
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#3This hits the nail on the head in calling out news reporting sites who don't fact check or truthfully report a topic. Its incredible how far from the actually story the Apple recycled gold headline deviates and really makes you wonder if citing so called reputable sources is even valid in some cases.
That's the problem with 24/7 news and the Internet.
1: Someone breaks a story 2: People get interested and share it with their friends 3: Other sources want a piece of that action so they bandwagon and cite the original piece for their own version.
I am often struck at how our modern communications framework, going all the way back to the telegraph, has allowed so much misinformation to be spread.
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#4Apple misled media. I hope media learns from this.
Re: Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
#5These kind of stories are useful to understand to what extent the media has turned into an echo chamber. Everybody has to have (or comment on) the same stories than everybody else has, so fast copying (with or without attribution) has become a de-facto practice in every news outlet out there.
Good for Motherboard to wait and check. Unfortunately this means we will see this article now in all the outlets that published the previous one with a hand-washing disclaimer ("remember that article SOMEONE ELSE wrote that we talked you about last week, well...")
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#6Apple misled media. I hope media learns from this.
Where is evidence of Apple misleading media? Apple certainly never said they were making money off recycled gold.
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#7Apple misled media. I hope media learns from this.
Learn what? Everyone still wins, Apple won, the media got clicks, everyone is a winner.
Let's be real wars have been fought over similar misrepresentation of the facts, nothing is going to change because all the parties involved make money on this kind of stuff. Tech journalism cares about getting views today, and only today. They can put out a correction tomorrow that no one will read because its about yesterday's news. Apple doesn't care because the initial press makes them look great. It's good for the goose, so don't expect their behavior to change.
Re: Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
#8Apple misled media. I hope media learns from this.
What on earth has Apple to do with this?
Re: Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
#9This hits the nail on the head in calling out news reporting sites who don't fact check or truthfully report a topic. Its incredible how far from the actually story the Apple recycled gold headline deviates and really makes you wonder if citing so called reputable sources is even valid in some cases.
That's the problem with 24/7 news and the Internet. 1: Someone breaks a story 2: People get interested and share it with their friends 3: Other sources want a piece of that action so they bandwagon and cite the original piece for their own version. I am often struck at how our modern communications framework, going all the way back to the telegraph, has allowed so much misinformation to be spread.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/978/
Re: Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
#10This hits the nail on the head in calling out news reporting sites who don't fact check or truthfully report a topic. Its incredible how far from the actually story the Apple recycled gold headline deviates and really makes you wonder if citing so called reputable sources is even valid in some cases.
That's the problem with 24/7 news and the Internet. 1: Someone breaks a story 2: People get interested and share it with their friends 3: Other sources want a piece of that action so they bandwagon and cite the original piece for their own version. I am often struck at how our modern communications framework, going all the way back to the telegraph, has allowed so much misinformation to be spread.
Some of those reporters are contracted to write five or even 10 posts per day. It's not like a NYT or WSJ reporter spending three weeks or three months on one story.
Also, because Google promotes blogspam without any regard for content quality (see the "freshness algorithm"), you lose money by spending longer on a post.
It's the exception rather than the rule that somebody will come along several days later and hit it out of the park, but well done Jason Koebler.