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I notice that his attempts to seed fake news on the liberal side always got promptly debunked. I think this election is going to be the high water mark for fake

I notice that his attempts to seed fake news on the liberal side always got promptly debunked. I think this election is going to be the high water mark for fake news, its just that liberals are ahead of the curve in being skeptical about information on the Net. What this needs is a click-baitey headline to make it go viral on the Right. Something like "You won't believe how this liberal guy made $$$ scamming conservatives!".

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return0 10y ago
> its just that liberals are ahead of the curve in being skeptical about information on the Net. The entire raison-d-etre of the "alternative right" websites is that conservative views are being suppressed in the entire leftist-leaning media establishment. If anything, liberals missed the entire ideological wave by pitting their heads in the sand, until it hit came back to bite them.
ryuker16 10y ago
I thought so too but on some issues like GMO, gun control, diamonds, etc. liberals believe fake news all the time. Breitbart came from a guy who learned the business working at Huffington post. Post an inaccurate article about evil Monsanto(and ignore its bigger gmo competitors) or the long dead debeers cartel(diamonds aren't pricy because of debeers). The load of horse shit on gun controls blows my mind.
- philovivero 10y ago
  Ding! "Left isn't fooled by fake news" makes me just shake my head in disbelief. You named three or four in what... two minutes? I'm glad you spent the 120 seconds of your life enumerating the ones that work over and over and over again. I wasn't even going to bother. Left/Right just have different triggers that shut their brains down and make them believe what they're told without any thought whatsoever.
  - ryuker16 10y ago
    I missed my thanksgiving flight
makomk 10y ago
From what I can tell, liberals aren't exactly skeptical - I've seen a huge amount of fakes spread virally on Twitter, even ones that are on Snopes and have Snopes links in the replies. They just don't seem to be willing to link to fake news websites, and without those links there's no way to turn a profit on the fakery.
- paulajohnson 10y ago
  Why would liberals be less "willing" to link to fake news? Nobody forwarding a link to one of these stories knows its fake (except the small minority being paid).
  - makomk 10y ago
    I honestly have no idea, but entirely unsourced claims, screenshots, claims that purport to be from other people on social media, and posts that link to genuine news articles which don't actually support the claim being made are all far more common. If I had to guess, dubious links somehow ended up with less credibility than no link at all.

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return0 10y ago

> its just that liberals are ahead of the curve in being skeptical about information on the Net. The entire raison-d-etre of the "alternative right" websites is that conservative views are being suppressed in the entire leftist-leaning media establishment. If anything, liberals missed the entire ideological wave by pitting their heads in the sand, until it hit came back to bite them.

ryuker16 10y ago

I thought so too but on some issues like GMO, gun control, diamonds, etc. liberals believe fake news all the time. Breitbart came from a guy who learned the business working at Huffington post. Post an inaccurate article about evil Monsanto(and ignore its bigger gmo competitors) or the long dead debeers cartel(diamonds aren't pricy because of debeers). The load of horse shit on gun controls blows my mind.

philovivero 10y ago
Ding! "Left isn't fooled by fake news" makes me just shake my head in disbelief. You named three or four in what... two minutes? I'm glad you spent the 120 seconds of your life enumerating the ones that work over and over and over again. I wasn't even going to bother. Left/Right just have different triggers that shut their brains down and make them believe what they're told without any thought whatsoever.
- ryuker16 10y ago
  I missed my thanksgiving flight

makomk 10y ago

From what I can tell, liberals aren't exactly skeptical - I've seen a huge amount of fakes spread virally on Twitter, even ones that are on Snopes and have Snopes links in the replies. They just don't seem to be willing to link to fake news websites, and without those links there's no way to turn a profit on the fakery.

paulajohnson 10y ago
Why would liberals be less "willing" to link to fake news? Nobody forwarding a link to one of these stories knows its fake (except the small minority being paid).
- makomk 10y ago
  I honestly have no idea, but entirely unsourced claims, screenshots, claims that purport to be from other people on social media, and posts that link to genuine news articles which don't actually support the claim being made are all far more common. If I had to guess, dubious links somehow ended up with less credibility than no link at all.