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Why wouldn't Breitbart be on Facebook News? Just about every news site these days is full of strong bias and misinformation - none are objective. They've made

Why wouldn't Breitbart be on Facebook News? Just about every news site these days is full of strong bias and misinformation - none are objective. They've made it hard to justify why we should listen to any of them. Just take a look at the NBC scandal with Matt Lauer, or the fake Syrian war footage ABC was spreading around that turned out to be a shooting range in Kentucky. Not to mention the Project Veritas releases concerning CNN and others. Trust is low with all news organizations and I think The Verge is just continuing to push their own bias onto users with this article. *edit - I see downvotes but no comments. I'd love to have my mind changed if someone has good reasons other than they don't like right wing media.

the_gastropod 7y ago
Holy false equivalency, Batman.
- negzero7 7y ago
  How so?
  - the_gastropod 7y ago
    C'mon. In your critique of mainstream media, you unironically cited Project Veritas to bolster your claim? From the Wikipedia page of Project Veritas: > The organization has produced deceptively edited videos targeted against ACORN, NPR and others.[12][13][14] During the 2016 campaign, the organization falsely claimed to have shown that the Hillary Clinton accepted illegal donations from foreign sources.[15] > O'Keefe was sued for defamation by a man he wrongfully depicted as a "willing participant in an underage sex-trafficking scheme"; the suit led to a settlement in 2013, in which O'Keefe issued an apology and paid $100,000.[16] > In 2017, it was caught in a failed attempt to trick the The Washington Post into posting a fabricated story about Roy Moore.[2][3][17][18] Rather than uncritically publish a story that accused Republican candidate Moore of impregnating a teenager, The Washington Post critically examined the story that they were presented with, checked the source, assessed her credibility and ultimately found that there was no merit to her claims, and that instead Project Veritas were trying to dupe The Washington Post.[10] > O'Keefe has been barred from fundraising for Project Veritas in Florida and other states because of his federal criminal record for entering a federal building under fraudulent pretenses Trust is low with legitimate news organizations because we have a political party very keen on believing bizarre conspiracy theories, who've rallied behind a narcissist who attacks any source critical of him. NPR, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, etc are all pretty damn solid news organizations. Are they perfect? No. But to compare their credibility to the likes of InfoWars or Breitbart is patently absurd.
syockit 7y ago
NewsGuard gave Breitbart green rating this year, citing that it regularly issues corrections. Facebook's choice of news sources probably works on the same guidelines. Of course, the good sources are the ones that do not publish errors or misinformation at all in the first place. But if that is used as the criteria, then most of the mainstream media would not even be legitimate candidate.
pnutjam 7y ago
Downvoted and commented. ----- Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Jean Paul-Sartre

the_gastropod 7y ago

Holy false equivalency, Batman.

negzero7 7y ago
How so?
- the_gastropod 7y ago
  C'mon. In your critique of mainstream media, you unironically cited Project Veritas to bolster your claim? From the Wikipedia page of Project Veritas: > The organization has produced deceptively edited videos targeted against ACORN, NPR and others.[12][13][14] During the 2016 campaign, the organization falsely claimed to have shown that the Hillary Clinton accepted illegal donations from foreign sources.[15] > O'Keefe was sued for defamation by a man he wrongfully depicted as a "willing participant in an underage sex-trafficking scheme"; the suit led to a settlement in 2013, in which O'Keefe issued an apology and paid $100,000.[16] > In 2017, it was caught in a failed attempt to trick the The Washington Post into posting a fabricated story about Roy Moore.[2][3][17][18] Rather than uncritically publish a story that accused Republican candidate Moore of impregnating a teenager, The Washington Post critically examined the story that they were presented with, checked the source, assessed her credibility and ultimately found that there was no merit to her claims, and that instead Project Veritas were trying to dupe The Washington Post.[10] > O'Keefe has been barred from fundraising for Project Veritas in Florida and other states because of his federal criminal record for entering a federal building under fraudulent pretenses Trust is low with legitimate news organizations because we have a political party very keen on believing bizarre conspiracy theories, who've rallied behind a narcissist who attacks any source critical of him. NPR, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, etc are all pretty damn solid news organizations. Are they perfect? No. But to compare their credibility to the likes of InfoWars or Breitbart is patently absurd.

syockit 7y ago

NewsGuard gave Breitbart green rating this year, citing that it regularly issues corrections. Facebook's choice of news sources probably works on the same guidelines. Of course, the good sources are the ones that do not publish errors or misinformation at all in the first place. But if that is used as the criteria, then most of the mainstream media would not even be legitimate candidate.

pnutjam 7y ago

Downvoted and commented. ----- Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Jean Paul-Sartre