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Since the end of the Election and the beginning of the end times, one of the biggest influences appeared to be news that was later deemed inaccurate, misleading or under the guise of "satire." It's concerning and relieving that it's made a bit more clearer that Americans (and pretty much the world, let's be real) has a distinct lack of media literacy. It's unfortunate that we had to fall flat on our face in order to do so. Whether its your low key racist aunt spreading articles about people being trucked in to protest Trump, to major news networks reporting that CNN played 30 minutes of porn in Boston based off of a single loving tweet, this thread is to discuss the impact of fake or misleading news. Totally cool with this thread being used to debunk fake news, media literacy as a whole, and the rise of clickbait journalism. Down to discuss biases among news orgs. Links to check out: (recommendations are highly welcome!) Politifact Not perfect, but drat near close. A bit quicker than Snopes. Snopes.com The ground floor of debunking. How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study - NYT How to Spot and Debunk Fake News - Lifehacker A decent list of fake, satirical, and pretty lovely news sites (it's a Google Doc that links to a PDF) caveat emptor: Silver2195 posted:I think the Zimdars list is rather unhelpful, since the way it includes websites that are merely heavily opinionated or have a clickbaity tone alongside sites that make things up out of whole cloth leads to a conflation of distinct issues. She does state that not everything on the list should be considered "fake news," but this point got lost, ironically, by the mainstream news sites reporting on it, and she really should have realized that would happen. Literally Unbelievable (or: why we desperately need Media Literacy taught in school) teen witch fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Silver2195 posted:I think the Zimdars list is rather unhelpful, since the way it includes websites that are merely heavily opinionated or have a clickbaity tone alongside sites that make things up out of whole cloth leads to a conflation of distinct issues. Good point, going to edit the OP to reflect that!
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Dec 1, 2016 16:12
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gently caress, even today on CNN. I was nearly expecting her to mention Infowars.
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Dec 1, 2016 20:38
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Fart of Darkness posted:The original post is here. It seems like Mark Zuckerberg is owning up to his platform's share of the blame. I'm curious to see the specifics of how Facebook will do things like verification and quality checking while also avoiding cries of censorship. I'm skeptical that any sort of measures to curb fake news and verification will go down as "Lubbrul Propagander". Even the backlash from Snopes is wild.
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