#fakenews formula, sensation+celebrity+cause=fakenews Use twitter to label all #fakenews (a code hashtag that isn't visible to viewers by changing the twitter foundation. The articles are then required to be vetted following rules from a panel that provides clear check lists to be considered fake news. Anytime news Is to be broadcast it must include standardized format, citations, rules for ad revenue and a list of all contributors to prevent a conflict of interest. Articles are not allowed to be written about companies who contribute to an outlet. There also needs to be a limit on how many ads can be displayed as well as how many a company can buy across platforms. Do not allow them to perform any "news broadcasting" unless followed and if it is violated, fine the culprit. The party identifying the "#codeword" would get paid the fines minus an administrative fee paid to the ethics committee as a commission. It's a system that ensures checks and balances in the journalism world. This would have a political component basically requiring places like twitter to follow these rules and guidelines. Otherwise they will not do it because this solution takes away a major source of their income and then they will actually have to compete for your subscriptions instead of just pumping out continuously overwhelming sensationalism
Fake News Challenge
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Say what you want about Breitbart, it's highly biased in what it chooses to report and the opinions it injects into its stories, but it usually cites and links to its sources. Something I can't say for CNN or Fox News.
Sources are one thing. Then they go and draw perverse or completely contradictory conclusions from them.
I see CNN and Fox News do the same thing, minus the sources. At least with sources you can click through and form your own opinion from the data.
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I don't think 'bias in news' begins to cover the sort of things that went on in the recent US election though. There was a lot of anti-Trump news that basically matches what you said above: > "fake news" will evolve, it will add parts of the truth to it dodge this 0th level definition * Trump kicked a mother and baby out of rally * Trump mocked a reporter's disability * Trump proposed building database of muslims And…
> * Trump kicked a mother and baby out of rally > * Trump mocked a reporter's disability Do you deny that these things happened? Has any other candidate - of any party - ever done anything like this? Is the media supposed to pretend that it didn't happen? This is where the "the facts have a well known liberal bias" joke comes from
> Do you deny that these things happened?
For the first one, the mother who was supposedly 'kicked out' denies it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/...
For the second one, he was not mocking the reporter's disability. He was mocking the reporter for pulling a story and the impersonation he did is Trump's standard impersonation for a flustered, bumbling person. There is multiple video of him doing the exact same action to able bodied people - from Ted Cruz to military generals, and all sorts of others.
Not only that, but the reporter's disability is nothing like the action Trump did. The reporter actually has frozen/locked up joints e.g. almost the exact opposite of what Trump did.
So, either Trump knew of the reporter's disability and wasn't mocking it (completely different actions), or he didn't know of the reporter's disability (and therefore couldn't have been mocking it).
In either situation, Trump wasn't mocking the reporter's disability.
Unfortunately a freeze frame from the video of Trump's movement matches a still photo of the journalist, hence the belief that he was mocking the reporter's disability.
And this is why people say the media has a well known Trump bias.