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People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by burfog »

bilbo0s wrote: post #375
pixl97 wrote: post #350

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>congresspeople and bankers are sexually molesting children who are held captive in the basement of a pizzeria, then there's not much that changing a media source is gonna do for you. Let's adjust that a little bit. Movie producers are sexually molesting children and women, and the police are helping covering up and not investigating it, for decades.

...in the basement of a pizzeria? A story like that would make sense to you?

Having seen some of Podesta's emails, it seems likely that the pizzeria is a codeword for some other location.

Normal people don't rent specific numbers of pizza slices by the hour.

Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by burfog »

akiselev wrote: post #141
sonnyblarney wrote: post #53

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Allison Mack, some other prominent actors, and several members of the Bronfman family are going down for running a sex ring. Some of the circumstances are crazy. It would seem like fake news at first glance surely. It's downright bizarre. I certainly would have written it off as 'National Enquirer' were it not out of super credible institutions. Sometimes it's hard to tell what is 'truth' and the major 'credible' new…

Oh I don't doubt the depravity of some human beings. The stuff that's public knowledge about the lollita express alone is horrific, basically putting it a few rungs short of 100 days of sodom. The problem is that accusations of pedophilia and molestation are emotional warheads so we get nutcases trying to shoot up pizzerias because of a rumor that makes absolutely zero sense because it is physically impossible . Ther…

It's mighty hard to prove that a building has never contained a basement. It could be constructed in secret, used, and then filled in. You'd need to dig it up like an archaeologist would, examining layers of soil for signs of disturbance.

More realistically though, the pizzeria was a codeword for the real location. Plenty of evidence for pizza-related codewords is in the Podesta emails. It's really creepy. Normal people don't rent specific numbers of slices of pizza for specific numbers of hours. It is widely thought that the number of slices is actually the age of the victim. Pizza-related codewords are known to be used by criminals involved in that sort of thing; some have been caught. Podesta also has some disturbing artwork in his home that features children.

Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by dang »

octernion wrote: post #409
sparkie wrote: post #399

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The majority of applicants for tech roles are white men, period! It's no accident that if you have 80% white people apply for jobs, then 80% of your company is going to be white. This is, assuming you do not discriminate based on skin color. If you have 80% white apply, and only 60% of your company is white, then you are disciminating based on skin color. This is racism! I don't care how you want to spin it, whether…

sorry you can't discriminate against white people, and it's not racism. again i feel like everyone has been very clear with you and i'm sorry you can't understand this.

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Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by taeric »

burfog wrote: post #419
taeric wrote: post #414

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This is in stark contrast to the evidence of the article. That some folks from older generations did this, I can accept. But you will need more data than this to counter the facts presented in the article, no?

The facts misconstrued in the article: older people are more likely to spread news found on a set of 21 conservative web sites identified by BuzzFeed. A better way to interpret those facts: older people lean conservative. The research showed that political outlook was a far better way to predict sharing these web sites than age or even party affiliation.

Is this just a slant saying that conservatives share more false news? That feels dangerous.

Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by dang »

octernion wrote: post #170
asabjorn wrote: post #157

Does anyone have a link to the source used to classify some news as fake and other news as real in this paper? Whomever control that definition can shift any conclusion, similarly to how hate speech definitions is used to silence speech on platforms such as Patreon [3]. I think we should treat any conclusion made by YouGov with caution because on at least on one occasion YouGov associated themselves with people belie…

lmao i love anti social justice warriors. bless your tiny, ice-cold hearts and backwards ways.

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Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by dang »

sparkie wrote: post #399
fzeroracer wrote: post #374

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White People are not actively discriminated against, period. Your fears are absurd and unfounded, considering white people still compose the majority of tech and that has changed very little.

The majority of applicants for tech roles are white men, period! It's no accident that if you have 80% white people apply for jobs, then 80% of your company is going to be white. This is, assuming you do not discriminate based on skin color. If you have 80% white apply, and only 60% of your company is white, then you are disciminating based on skin color. This is racism! I don't care how you want to spin it, whether…

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Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by octernion »

dang wrote: post #425
octernion wrote: post #170

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lmao i love anti social justice warriors. bless your tiny, ice-cold hearts and backwards ways.

Comments like this will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are, or feel you are, or how wrong someone else is. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all, from now on.

that's fair, sorry dang. you do great work.

that being said, not really sure why my other comments are flagged (below in thread). seems in bad faith.

Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by octernion »

dang wrote: post #423
octernion wrote: post #409

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sorry you can't discriminate against white people, and it's not racism. again i feel like everyone has been very clear with you and i'm sorry you can't understand this.

Ideological flamewar is not welcome on Hacker News, regardless of which ideology you're flaming. You did more than anyone else to turn this thread into a hellish flamewar. We ban accounts that post like this. Please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

you are right, i was being a jerk and escalating things.

Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

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Post by burfog »

taeric wrote: post #424
burfog wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The facts misconstrued in the article: older people are more likely to spread news found on a set of 21 conservative web sites identified by BuzzFeed. A better way to interpret those facts: older people lean conservative. The research showed that political outlook was a far better way to predict sharing these web sites than age or even party affiliation.

Is this just a slant saying that conservatives share more false news? That feels dangerous.

It's something like that. The study picked conservative news sites, then showed that various groups were more or less likely to spread that news. The most obvious finding in the study is that conservatives were more likely to spread this news, but it was also found that old people were more likely to spread it. The article focused on the old people.
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