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How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study

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Re: How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study

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Post by exolymph »

I agree with something Ben Thompson said on his podcast Exponent — fake news is a problem intimated tied to Facebook as a platform and the filter bubbles that most people create for themselves. This material functions less as news, per se, and more as performative identity affirmation.

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Post by tmaly »

read Ryan Holiday's Trust Me I'm Lying. He lays out the bigger manipulation of the media. False blog posts get picked up by slightly bigger media sites. Then larger sites like Huffington post pick the story up. There is no validation of these stories.

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Post by anabis »

An anonymous blog entry titled 「保育園落ちた日本死ね」"Couldn't get slot for my child in nursery school, Japan should drop dead." got discussed in the Japanese parliament. The opposition party picked it up.

I wish political discussions were more evidence based, but I don't know how to do it.

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Post by Jerry2 »

"Fake News" is a Orwellian double-speak for alternative news.

Mainstream media lost its grip on propaganda and now they're trying to push for censorship of opposing views (this past election is the proof of that). Read this interview with the founder of Snopes for the background of this [0].

Never mind the fact that "real news" organizations have been caught lying so many times and have collaborated, behind the closed doors, with Hillary's campaign, for example. [1]

And they're also grouping WikiLeaks under the "fake news" category as well. I guess that's the punishment for exposing how corrupt the mainstream media really is.

[0] https://backchannel.com/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not...

[1] http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/meet-leftist-prof-who-wrote-hit-l...

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Post by noobermin »

Jerry2 wrote: post #7

"Fake News" is a Orwellian double-speak for alternative news. Mainstream media lost its grip on propaganda and now they're trying to push for censorship of opposing views (this past election is the proof of that). Read this interview with the founder of Snopes for the background of this [0]. Never mind the fact that "real news" organizations have been caught lying so many times and have collaborated, behind the close…

The article is specifically about an event which was a mistake. Perhaps they are making a larger statement about alternative media by posting that, but that wasn't the point of the article.

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Post by psychometry »

Americans apparently don't learn how to think in their many years of compulsory schooling. They can apparently be shown pictures of unmarked buses and be told to believe anything you want. I really don't know how you combat that. How can you try to show these people the truth when they don't have the capacity to discern fact from fiction?
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