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Let's distinguish between unflattering treatment and fake news.

• devopsproject 10y ago
  This was twisted and extremely biased. This is fake news.
• metaphorm 10y ago
  you're right, there are multiple varieties of distortion and bias in media, ranging all the way from outright fabrication (#fakenews) to mild editorial bias. however...the bloomberg piece here is about as extreme as you can get in terms of distortion and bias. it's not precisely #fakenews but it is deliberately misleading, and therefore a kind of disinformation in its own right.
• forgottenpass 10y ago
  The giant con the media is currently peddling is that subtle misinformation is worse than blatant misinformation. If you consider every individual's "bullshit detector" to be part of a collective information immune system, there is plenty of reasons to be more afraid of the manipulation we can't easily spot.
• geezerjay 10y ago
  > Let's distinguish between unflattering treatment and fake news. Do you honestly believe that Bloomberg's hit piece targetting Scott Adams for his crime of not being a rabid anti-Trump hater is not in any way "fake news"?