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More to the point, how many people who are caught up by fake news actually read the original article? The pattern is to: (1) Publish a fake article on a propaga
by whoopdedo 8y ago
More to the point, how many people who are caught up by fake news actually read the original article? The pattern is to: (1) Publish a fake article on a propaganda site (2) Tweet it out from a sockpuppet account (3) Use paid promotion or hacking to get it retweeted by a few influencers (4) The unassuming masses amplify the message by repeating the headline in the tweet. By the time anyone notices that the source of the misinformation is a fake news site the story has already traveled around the world two-and-a-half times.
NewsGuard may as well flag twitter.com in that case.
- ilaksh 8y agoHere's what you should really be worried about: the propaganda that goes straight out of CNN into your brain and you don't question it.
- whoopdedo 8y agoLegitimate stories can be abused by retweet misinformation as well. A blogger or tweet posts "NYT says" with an out-of-context quote from the article. This gets repeated until someone points out "Actually that's not true." All the people who saw the retweet think that newspaper was caught spreading false information. But because they never read the actual article, only the selectively edited version of it, they don't notice that the New York Times was reporting it in a balanced and responsible way.