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The article contains several real examples of fake news influencing foreign elections. When you live in a country where your the only data you can afford to ac

The article contains several real examples of fake news influencing foreign elections. When you live in a country where your the only data you can afford to access is Facebook and partner's "free" version of the Internet on your mobile device, the possibility of fake news influencing the election is increased dramatically. You conveniently fail to mention that every example in the article is real, factual, and documented. Do you have any specific examples mentioned in the article that are demonstrably false? Without any specific falsehoods, you're simply indulging in an ad hominem attack on the source as being biased in and of itself based on what you perceive to be their motives.

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> The article contains several real examples of fake news influencing foreign elections. It has exactly one example that supports its thesis. That example involved several other factors and the end result of the election was not affected. Here is some coverage from the time it was happening: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0529/Indonesia-smear-campaign-nips-at-election-frontrunner-Joko-Widodo-video http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0529/Indone... The rest of the NYT article is a hodgepodge of unsubstantiated statements, hand-picked opinions, pictures and social media quotes. Or do you seriously consider a badly Photoshopped picture of someone's T-Shirt to be a "fact" that illustrates the influence of Facebook on world elections? > Without any specific falsehoods You seem to have missed the part where I specifically said that high-grade propaganda does not rely on outright lies. ... Meanwhile, the title of the article in question was changed from "Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New" to "Fake News in U.S. Election? Elsewhere, That’s Nothing New". This serves to further illustrate my point about framing.

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> The article contains several real examples of fake news influencing foreign elections. It has exactly one example that supports its thesis. That example involved several other factors and the end result of the election was not affected. Here is some coverage from the time it was happening: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0529/Indonesia-smear-campaign-nips-at-election-frontrunner-Joko-Widodo-video http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0529/Indone... The rest of the NYT article is a hodgepodge of unsubstantiated statements, hand-picked opinions, pictures and social media quotes. Or do you seriously consider a badly Photoshopped picture of someone's T-Shirt to be a "fact" that illustrates the influence of Facebook on world elections? > Without any specific falsehoods You seem to have missed the part where I specifically said that high-grade propaganda does not rely on outright lies. ... Meanwhile, the title of the article in question was changed from "Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New" to "Fake News in U.S. Election? Elsewhere, That’s Nothing New". This serves to further illustrate my point about framing.