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On one hand, it is worrying, but on the other... There is also a labeling issue. A Facebook user looking for news about the Las Vegas shooting on Monday mornin
by QAPereo 9y ago
On one hand, it is worrying, but on the other...
There is also a labeling issue. A Facebook user looking for news about the Las Vegas shooting on Monday morning, or a Google user searching for information about the wrongfully accused shooter, would have found posts from 4Chan and Sputnik alongside articles by established news organizations like CNN and NBC News, with no obvious cues to indicate which ones came from reliable sources.
...it’s 4Chan... is that not a clue? Where is the line betweeen attempts to deceive, and just dealing with the human LCD?
- ianai 9y agoMy step sister is repeating this stuff as fact. Clearly there are deeper issues than which website the spam comes from originally.
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoHow old is she, out of curiosity?
- TallGuyShort 9y agoI observed people making posts including specific technical details of the firearms used (like magazine capacity and rate of fire), and when pressed to explain where they got the numbers since they were unrealistically high, they admitted that it was all inferred from a few brief video clips. Unless it turns out that the shooter was using a literal belt-fed machine gun (and one with an impressively high rate of fire at that), people were simply drawing dumb conclusions from the raw footage and some headlines because they assumed it painted a complete picture. That's not a fake news problem, but it is a problem.