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I don't believe that is true. You want it to be true, and so you've fallen for it. The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories th

I don't believe that is true. You want it to be true, and so you've fallen for it. The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories that support their own biases. Such as this article, but that goes without saying.

yorwba 9y ago
> The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories that support their own biases. I'd rather say that people only fall for fake news stories that don't run counter to their own biases. I.e. when someone is completely ignorant about a topic, and the first story they read about it is fake news, they might believe it. In any case, you seem to be agreeing that people fall for fake news that supports their own biases, hence: >> people in first world countries (eg, Americans, Germans, etc.) can't reliably detect fake accounts or fake news stories. They can reliably detect whether something does or does not agree with their preexisting knowledge/biases, but that doesn't always help with detecting fake accounts or fake news.
- RyanZAG 9y ago
  The article itself provides no proof that the people they are calling fake are indeed fake. That counts as being deliberately malicious in my book, but I'd think it would count as being 'biased' in anybody's book. That's all I wanted to bring to people's attention. Often just pointing it out to people is enough to help sway them away from making a mistake, and trusting this article as being on the level would be a terrible mistake for anyone to make.
veidr 9y ago
You are utterly wrong about that, and it is easily proven. (People not only believe the fake news stories, some of them even arm themselves and storm pizza parlors to rescue the innocent children Hillary Clinton is trafficking as sex slaves, or refuse to vaccinate their kids and thereby put their own children and others at risk, etc etc etc etc etc). But it's interesting you are getting so worked up defending this idea — why is that? What cognitive bruise are you protecting?

yorwba 9y ago

> The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories that support their own biases. I'd rather say that people only fall for fake news stories that don't run counter to their own biases. I.e. when someone is completely ignorant about a topic, and the first story they read about it is fake news, they might believe it. In any case, you seem to be agreeing that people fall for fake news that supports their own biases, hence: >> people in first world countries (eg, Americans, Germans, etc.) can't reliably detect fake accounts or fake news stories. They can reliably detect whether something does or does not agree with their preexisting knowledge/biases, but that doesn't always help with detecting fake accounts or fake news.

RyanZAG 9y ago
The article itself provides no proof that the people they are calling fake are indeed fake. That counts as being deliberately malicious in my book, but I'd think it would count as being 'biased' in anybody's book. That's all I wanted to bring to people's attention. Often just pointing it out to people is enough to help sway them away from making a mistake, and trusting this article as being on the level would be a terrible mistake for anyone to make.

veidr 9y ago

You are utterly wrong about that, and it is easily proven. (People not only believe the fake news stories, some of them even arm themselves and storm pizza parlors to rescue the innocent children Hillary Clinton is trafficking as sex slaves, or refuse to vaccinate their kids and thereby put their own children and others at risk, etc etc etc etc etc). But it's interesting you are getting so worked up defending this idea — why is that? What cognitive bruise are you protecting?