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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 t
by 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 agoI 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 agoWhen 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 agoDidn'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 agoThe "why not Bayesian filtering"? Indeed, why not? Go build that.
- mieses 10y agoA world view that relies upon censoring and denying an attack on a news crew that actually occurred...
- knowaveragejoe 10y agoWhat 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.