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How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study

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Post by cryoshon »

woodruffw wrote: post #52
cryoshon wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>What exactly is being pushed on the American people?' what about that time the NYT pushed the iraq war or that time they pushed hillary clinton or that time they pushed (insert whatever their paid PR "article" of the second is pushing for)

If I remember correctly, the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq. Newspapers make mistakes, recognize them, and apologize publicly. That's journalistic ethics. They were also forwards about their editorial support for HRC, having declared her their candidate well before she became the presumptive DNC nominee. You might not like the fact that pro-HRC opinion pieces made…

>the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq

i also remember how it was widely thought to be a bad idea at the time by millions of people, yet, somehow they managed to pick the wrong position.

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Post by andrepd »

colllectorof wrote: post #78
andrepd wrote: post #38

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It's almost as if there happened some event of global proportions less than 2 weeks ago that was perhaps in great measure directly caused by this phenomenon?

Do you really believe that seeing a picture of two buses on Facebook changed the candidate someone voted for?

No, not this case in particular, though I'm sure it changed quite a few minds. I'm taking about the "fake news" and "post-truth" phenomenon as a whole.

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Post by norikki »

noobermin wrote: post #39
norikki wrote: post #18

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The point of the article is to discourage 'non-approved' news sources because they must all be fake like this bus thing was. Its propaganda to try and keep the NYT relevant despite their lies and deception such as promoting the war in Iraq.

To be fair to the article, the origin of the misconception was a single tweet, which I'm not sure really counts as "non-approved" news sources. The second stage of the stories spread was reddit, which I think too isn't really a news source, or may be that's what you mean.

Of course primary sources are 'non-appoved'. Thats why CNN was caught telling listeners that it was illegal for anyone but CNN to read the WikiLeak Podesta emails.

When I saw the bus thing I questioned how the guy knew the buses were full of protestors, and then stopped caring because it was just some guy on twitter. The MSM want you to blindly accept their narrative and lose the ability to tell fact from fiction.

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Post by dllthomas »

cryoshon wrote: post #81
woodruffw wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I remember correctly, the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq. Newspapers make mistakes, recognize them, and apologize publicly. That's journalistic ethics. They were also forwards about their editorial support for HRC, having declared her their candidate well before she became the presumptive DNC nominee. You might not like the fact that pro-HRC opinion pieces made…

>the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq i also remember how it was widely thought to be a bad idea at the time by millions of people, yet, somehow they managed to pick the wrong position.

> somehow they managed to pick the wrong position.

... along with millions of other people.

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