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How I Detect Fake News
- salemh 10y agoThis paragraph is a good summary of the content of the authors own perspective on news, and verification of "fake news". >Snopes, which uses human editors for fact checking, does a good job, but they can’t find every fake news story. Still, when a reputable fact-checking organization like Snopes or Politifact identifies a story as false, that’s a pretty good sign. And in fact, the fake news story has been taken down on Facebook, presumably in response.
- dba7dba 10y agoAll this anger against 'fake' news reminded of a book I started reading years ago but never finished because I wanted to spend more time reading news. https://www.amazon.com/How-News-Makes-Dumb-Information/dp/0830822038 https://www.amazon.com/How-News-Makes-Dumb-Information/dp/08... Basically, news (as defined in our modern era) makes us stupid. And I happen to agree...