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YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say

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Re: YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say

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Post by muzika »

If they ban YouTube channels that have been shown to be spreading “misinformation” then we should also ban private news organizations when they are caught spreading politically motivated misinformation.

They are no different except that people in general know to be skeptical of YouTube videos, while trusting reporting of mainstream media to be truthful.

Every single time mainstream media has reported on an incident that I myself was very familiar with they have ALWAYS misreported it.

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Post by megumax »

So these "factcheckers" are literally the media aka the propaganda machine. I wonder if that's the future we want, a future only politically correct opinions are accepted, otherwise you're called a liar and you lose social points. It doesn't sound like democracy, but who knows.

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Post by giuliomagnifico »

refurb wrote: post #9
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No > A letter signed by more than 80 groups, including Full Fact in the UK and the Washington Post’s Fact Checker

What do you mean “no”. It’s literally the media? The people who publish lies have now nominated themselves “fact checkers”. That’s ironic.

Oh sorry I read ‘media ongs’ instead of ‘media orgs’ in your first reply. For that I replied “no”. There’re no ONG, but yes, obviously there’re also media companies but not only. By the way they are all members of the Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).

This is the original article: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/youtube-misinform...

Anyway there are

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Post by maest »

megumax wrote: post #12

So these "factcheckers" are literally the media aka the propaganda machine. I wonder if that's the future we want, a future only politically correct opinions are accepted, otherwise you're called a liar and you lose social points. It doesn't sound like democracy, but who knows.

You may be conflating "false information" with "politically incorrect statements".

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Post by megumax »

maest wrote: post #14
megumax wrote: post #12

So these "factcheckers" are literally the media aka the propaganda machine. I wonder if that's the future we want, a future only politically correct opinions are accepted, otherwise you're called a liar and you lose social points. It doesn't sound like democracy, but who knows.

You may be conflating "false information" with "politically incorrect statements".

I'm not an American, but these "fact checks" are not really based on actual facts, but mostly on "correct" opinions.

For example, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/06/january-6... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/04/bidens-cl...

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Post by macrowhat »

maest wrote: post #14
megumax wrote: post #12

So these "factcheckers" are literally the media aka the propaganda machine. I wonder if that's the future we want, a future only politically correct opinions are accepted, otherwise you're called a liar and you lose social points. It doesn't sound like democracy, but who knows.

You may be conflating "false information" with "politically incorrect statements".

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Re: YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say

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Post by user3939382 »

In Stossel v. Meta Platforms, Inc. et al, Facebook says its “fact checks” are opinion. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Google’s lawyers characterize theirs in the same way. I don’t give someone’s opinion more weight because they call themselves a fact checker. The “truth” (i.e. “facts”) is often complicated and subjective, especially in politics. The lack of compassion for other peoples’ perspectives that underlies this whole “disinformation” movement lately is sad.

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Post by refurb »

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #13
refurb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean “no”. It’s literally the media? The people who publish lies have now nominated themselves “fact checkers”. That’s ironic.

Oh sorry I read ‘media ongs’ instead of ‘media orgs’ in your first reply. For that I replied “no”. There’re no ONG, but yes, obviously there’re also media companies but not only. By the way they are all members of the Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). This is the original article: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/youtube-misinform... Anyway there are

Hey thanks for the reply. May want to call your doc for possible stroke.

Re: YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say

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Post by giuliomagnifico »

refurb wrote: post #19
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh sorry I read ‘media ongs’ instead of ‘media orgs’ in your first reply. For that I replied “no”. There’re no ONG, but yes, obviously there’re also media companies but not only. By the way they are all members of the Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). This is the original article: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/youtube-misinform... Anyway there are

Hey thanks for the reply. May want to call your doc for possible stroke.

Ahah, will do, my optometrist I think!
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