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The example of "endingthefed.com" (appears to be an ultra-conservative platform, but nothing overly nonsensical) from the README implies otherwise.

tptacek 10y ago
Front page of that site: "German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death". From the backcatalog: Putin Issues US Election Theft Warning, Orders Military To Protect Trump “At All Costs” BREAKING: Putin Just Gave Obama 24 Hours Or His Ships Will Open Fire Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war Putin Warns Trump…ELITES PLANNING YOUR ASSASSINATION Vladimir Putin Escapes New World Order Assassination Attempt Putin Goes On LIVE TV And CONFIRMS That Obama And Hillary CREATED ISIS and my personal favorite Putin and Dalai Lama: Obama Is Responsible for ISIS, Along With Hillary (and 23 more pages of stuff like this) This is webspam. The trick is: look past the front page. The front page is designed to look semi-sane. That's the point. Fakenews wouldn't work if you were just one click away from seeing that it's all a troll factory construction. You have to click a couple times to see that.
- allemagne 10y ago
  >The front page is designed to look semi-sane. That's the point. Fakenews wouldn't work if you were just one click away from seeing that it's all a troll factory construction. That didn't occur to me. Makes total sense. Thanks
knowaveragejoe 10y ago
EndingTheFed is exactly the sort of fake news site designed around ad dollars that we're talking about. I'm not sure if you even looked at the site beyond the top few stories, but here's a few examples just a little bit down the page: > 60 Minutes Goes To Sweden To Show How Peaceful Refugees Are, Entire Crew Gets Assaulted By Refugees (video is actually of an altercation with a conservative news group, while their interview seems genial, the actual video is attempting to cast the immigrants in Sweden in as negative light as possible, even going so far as repeating the falsehood of "no-go zones" and failing to mention that the rioting they show is actually being perpetrated by Swedes themselves) > German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death (So get back to church) > UNREAL: Ground-Breaking Cancer Treatment Snubbed By Media Because THIS Country Made It (which country you ask? Israel of course! Because the leftist media hates Israel, duh!) > BREAKING: Measles Outbreak Traced, Look at Sick Location it Originated From " For many months, conservatives and Republicans have been trying to warn the public that the incoming flood of immigrants"
- jjawssd 10y ago
  I wouldn't say that it is entirely fake. When I was in Sweden I was hanging out with several Iraqis which confirmed the existence of no-go zones where assaults and arson including car bombs are common in some suburbs of Stockholm. I take their advice with a grain of salt but they had no apparent incentive to be dishonest. Instead of a crude block list, why not bayesian filtering?
  - tptacek 10y ago
    When you were last in Russia did you happen to catch video of the Dalai Lama endorsing Trump and blaming Clinton and Obama for creating ISIS? I don't think trying to rehabilitate this particular fakenews site is a good use of your time, because really you're just going to end up passionately defending a malign shell script.
    - jjawssd 10y ago
      Didn't see those videos. I'm more interested in an answer to my question. I believe that the fake news problem is intractable. You cannot identify any news source as being fake or real objectively. You can only trust other people's interpretations of the information, and other people's interpretations are easily manipulated because people are emotional. What do you think?
      - tptacek 10y ago
        The "why not Bayesian filtering"? Indeed, why not? Go build that.
- mieses 10y ago
  A world view that relies upon censoring and denying an attack on a news crew that actually occurred...
  - knowaveragejoe 10y ago
    What world view do you think this website represents? Furthermore, wherein do I censor and/or deny that an attack occurred? The title says "News crew goes to Sweden to show how peaceful refugees are" - yet the actual segment is the exact opposite of that. You can see the video yourself, as well as the context I point out - or lack thereof, as it were.

tptacek 10y ago

Front page of that site: "German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death". From the backcatalog: Putin Issues US Election Theft Warning, Orders Military To Protect Trump “At All Costs” BREAKING: Putin Just Gave Obama 24 Hours Or His Ships Will Open Fire Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war Putin Warns Trump…ELITES PLANNING YOUR ASSASSINATION Vladimir Putin Escapes New World Order Assassination Attempt Putin Goes On LIVE TV And CONFIRMS That Obama And Hillary CREATED ISIS and my personal favorite Putin and Dalai Lama: Obama Is Responsible for ISIS, Along With Hillary (and 23 more pages of stuff like this) This is webspam. The trick is: look past the front page. The front page is designed to look semi-sane. That's the point. Fakenews wouldn't work if you were just one click away from seeing that it's all a troll factory construction. You have to click a couple times to see that.

allemagne 10y ago
>The front page is designed to look semi-sane. That's the point. Fakenews wouldn't work if you were just one click away from seeing that it's all a troll factory construction. That didn't occur to me. Makes total sense. Thanks

knowaveragejoe 10y ago

EndingTheFed is exactly the sort of fake news site designed around ad dollars that we're talking about. I'm not sure if you even looked at the site beyond the top few stories, but here's a few examples just a little bit down the page: > 60 Minutes Goes To Sweden To Show How Peaceful Refugees Are, Entire Crew Gets Assaulted By Refugees (video is actually of an altercation with a conservative news group, while their interview seems genial, the actual video is attempting to cast the immigrants in Sweden in as negative light as possible, even going so far as repeating the falsehood of "no-go zones" and failing to mention that the rioting they show is actually being perpetrated by Swedes themselves) > German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death (So get back to church) > UNREAL: Ground-Breaking Cancer Treatment Snubbed By Media Because THIS Country Made It (which country you ask? Israel of course! Because the leftist media hates Israel, duh!) > BREAKING: Measles Outbreak Traced, Look at Sick Location it Originated From " For many months, conservatives and Republicans have been trying to warn the public that the incoming flood of immigrants"

jjawssd 10y ago
I wouldn't say that it is entirely fake. When I was in Sweden I was hanging out with several Iraqis which confirmed the existence of no-go zones where assaults and arson including car bombs are common in some suburbs of Stockholm. I take their advice with a grain of salt but they had no apparent incentive to be dishonest. Instead of a crude block list, why not bayesian filtering?
- tptacek 10y ago
  When you were last in Russia did you happen to catch video of the Dalai Lama endorsing Trump and blaming Clinton and Obama for creating ISIS? I don't think trying to rehabilitate this particular fakenews site is a good use of your time, because really you're just going to end up passionately defending a malign shell script.
  - jjawssd 10y ago
    Didn't see those videos. I'm more interested in an answer to my question. I believe that the fake news problem is intractable. You cannot identify any news source as being fake or real objectively. You can only trust other people's interpretations of the information, and other people's interpretations are easily manipulated because people are emotional. What do you think?
    - tptacek 10y ago
      The "why not Bayesian filtering"? Indeed, why not? Go build that.
mieses 10y ago
A world view that relies upon censoring and denying an attack on a news crew that actually occurred...
- knowaveragejoe 10y ago
  What world view do you think this website represents? Furthermore, wherein do I censor and/or deny that an attack occurred? The title says "News crew goes to Sweden to show how peaceful refugees are" - yet the actual segment is the exact opposite of that. You can see the video yourself, as well as the context I point out - or lack thereof, as it were.