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I think what you said about choosing what to fact check is true, however, it is also true that spreading propaganda/intentional false information is a massive p
by pfisch 8y ago
I think what you said about choosing what to fact check is true, however, it is also true that spreading propaganda/intentional false information is a massive problem on the right, and a much smaller problem on the left. It exists and is an issue, but there is a massive industry on the right that willfully spreads false information and it encompasses almost every conservative media outlet. All of the big political commentators on the right do it constantly all the way up to the president who tells nonstop lies.
- matis140 8y agothe left is just better at producing propaganda. do not forget most of our universities have become extreme left and the papers they write reflect this. It is not an accident the way money has corrupted research.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y ago> do not forget most of our universities have become extreme left I'd posit that people on the left typically value education more than people on the right and are therefore more likely to attend universities. > and the papers they write reflect this. It is not an accident the way money has corrupted research. I read this as "research is coming up with conclusions that don't fit my world view/opinions/beliefs and I don't like it."
- leesalminen 8y agoThe HN equivalent of the deplorables comment.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoMeaning it was rude and unprofessional, yet undeniably true?
- mulmen 8y agoIf I crank the steering wheel of my car hard right the center line of the freeway doesn't actually move. It might appear that way from my little bubble but reality stays the same. From the perspective of a typical Fox News viewer education has a strong left bias because they're effectively driving on the shoulder.
- drilldrive 8y agoYes the right wing does have worse-off sourcing in general in comparison to the left wing. But the left wing is what has been holding power, a la the article here, with the partisan Snopes given control over the content of people's feeds. My main criticism of Snopes is their choices of what perspective of the 'facts' that they will check. The worst example of this is seen here (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-d...) in that according to the article itself, it would have been incredibly unlikely for Reagan to have had diagnosable Alzheimer's during his presidency, and yet the rating is not a "No" or a "No" with some qualifications, but an "Unproven".
- pfisch 8y agoFrom the evidence presented there I would say it is unclear. Also no one can fact check everything just like no one can report everything. So I agree there are subtle ways of being biased that don’t require telling lies. That will always be a limitation. That said the right tells so many more lies that any fact checking service should be spending more time on the right vs the left.
- drilldrive 8y agoSorry, I should have given the quote that I was referring to: "It must also be said that given that the average life expectancy of a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease is eight to 10 years, Reagan, who died in 2004 (10 years after his diagnosis), would have been extraordinarily long-lived for an Alzheimer’s patient if he was already suffering from the disease, as some claim, in 1984." I was certainly being hyperbolic above in saying this article was the worst offender though. Here is also another mild case: (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/california-senate-ban-he-she/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/california-senate-ban-he-s...), where the headline is geared toward the strongest claim and yet there is in fact a nonstandard situation in that there is a push within the committee to designate 'they' as the standard pronoun, and documents were altered. But seeing as the right winged media made the claims of banning themselves, Snopes is boxed in here.