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Stop misusing the word "fake news." Business Insider is not the New York Times, but even they would not openly fabricate a source [1]. My guess is they ran a s
by argonaut 10y ago
Stop misusing the word "fake news."
Business Insider is not the New York Times, but even they would not openly fabricate a source [1]. My guess is they ran a story with an actual source, but the source was speculating.
[1] Outright making stuff up is the definition of fake news. 100% made up.
- atmartins 10y agoHow is speculating not equal to fake?
- argonaut 10y agoBecause it was clear from the article who the source was and that this was hearsay. Also the article updated itself with a rebuttal from Lattner. Fake news would not talk about who their source is. Fake news would not publish Lattner's denial. There is a difference between fake news and second-rate journalism. If someone doesn't think there is a difference, I'm guessing they also see the world in black and white.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoStop making up your own definition of "fake news." You're not some authority, you're just a random Internet user like everyone else.
- iwintermute 10y agoSpeculation (if it's clearly marked as such) - is just an "entertainment" piece - for example, you could write in your blog what are the next features for iOS without any clear sources - that would be just speculating about. Fake news - news that has wrong info as facts or provide something as sourced when the original source never said that. I think that's rather huge difference (speculation from some outsider can still by chance be true, fake is by definition false)