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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 You don't need to have an increase in fake news to have
by JoshCole 8y ago
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146
You don't need to have an increase in fake news to have an increase in the perception of fake news. Another way to get an increase in the perception of fake news is to change the structural graph through which news propagates. The two most outspoken people I know of on the topic of the problem of fake news both happen to be twitter users (Elon Musk, Donald Trump).
- pvg 8y agoI don't really understand how this is a response to what I said.
- JoshCole 8y agoThe Science paper I linked was meant to show that the twitter graph has properties which spread fake news through its part of the news propagation graph. The people I referenced were meant to show that people on the graph with such a property are talking about the fake news problem as if it is real. Taken together, my response to you was trying to get at the idea that fake news, even if not a thing from the perspective of one node on overall news propagation graph, can seem very real from another position on the graph. So basically, I disagree with the claim that fake news doesn't exist, in a subtle way.
- pvg 8y agoI disagree with the claim that fake news doesn't exist I got that bit, it's just not a thing I argued.