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A day after an article about fake-news research being retracted and here are people commenting enthusiasticly and gullibly about another piece of fake-news rese
by infradig 8y ago
A day after an article about fake-news research being retracted and here are people commenting enthusiasticly and gullibly about another piece of fake-news research being promulgated. It's like no one has heard of the social sciences reproducibility crisis. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
- porpoisely 8y agoNo less from theverge. It's amazing that people take theverge seriously after their "how to build a pc" fiasco. The one thing about the "fake news" hysteria is that one side consuming the fake news is accusing the other side consuming the fake news. As far as I can tell, it's all fake news and propaganda.
- bmer 8y agoDonald Trump's presidency is weird because the "mainstream media" (a term used by many, regardless of their political spectrum) began to be treated as "real news" simply because Donald Trump was calling it "fake news". People have been talking about the issues with the "mainstream media" (in particular, whether their profit motives line up with their ethical duty) for a few decades, and it all it takes is one clown to suddenly restore faith in the media? I have seen people talk about Bush like he was an okay president. It feels like many have forgotten about the responsibility of the media in promulgating the Iraq war narrative. People don't really seem to get the media actually continues to profit from its interaction with Donald Trump (those sweet, juicy views!), and continues to pass on useless information to the public, rather than actionable information which might stir the public into something other than apathy. ...something is so weird, and I am struggling to put my finger on it...
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- zozbot123 8y ago> fake-news research Says who? A voluntarily-retracted study is not "fake news" anyway. People are allowed to make mistakes.