NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
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#2The NYT is yet to publish a correction to an article publicizing a comically erroneous study suggesting a relationship between Facebook use and attacks on refugees in Germany: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/fa...
They have been running smear campaigns against tech companies for years and then act dumb and ask about the change in sentiment towards them.
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#3This article is solid sanity check on the NYT story discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20146090
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#4NYT does itself no favors with regard to its already questionable credibility by spreading anti-tech propaganda.
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#6"Straightforward" extrapolation is the worst! Reminds me of the RIAA damages numbers often quoted in courts
"Well, it was a $2 mp3, and ~100M copies were downloaded, that's $2 * 100M = $200M in lost revenue/damages!!"
As if 1 download = 1 guaranteed lost sale. On the contrary sometimes 1 download = 1 future sale where there was none before!
By that logic the easiest way to make a million is just to download (or copy) a $1 mp3 1M times - congrats, you now own $1M in assets!
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#7The New York Times is no longer the steady unbias pillar it once was. They hire fresh out SJW types to do their writing and it shows. Once I finally came to that realization, I stopped taking them seriously, but I feel others have not quite reached that epiphany yet. Keep in mind they almost went bankrupt if it were not for Carlos Slim bailing them out. Then you saw a bunch of praise pieces about Slim, and you realize much of the old guard is gone. That should have been the first red flag. The NYT lives off its names legacy reputations alone, but all the quality journalism is gone, with just refined legacy veneer wrapped around very questionable bias premises for most stories.
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#8Huh, it's as if the NYT has a narrative they wish to push, and will use lazy/questionable journalism to do it...
Makes ya wonder what other topics they're doing this with...
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#9Huh, it's as if the NYT has a narrative they wish to push, and will use lazy/questionable journalism to do it... Makes ya wonder what other topics they're doing this with...
WMD comes to mind.
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