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Fake news are not obvious. Let me take a quote from this article: https://www.google.de/amp/s/bigthink.com/surprising-science/netflix-binge-watching-makes-cli
by konschubert 7y ago
Fake news are not obvious.
Let me take a quote from this article:
https://www.google.de/amp/s/bigthink.com/surprising-science/netflix-binge-watching-makes-climate-change-worse.amp.html https://www.google.de/amp/s/bigthink.com/surprising-science/...
> The emissions generated by watching a half hour of Netflix is the same as from driving almost 4 miles.
That’s a lie, it uses at least an order of magnitude less energy. But it’s not immediately obvious and many critical thinkers will have believed this wildly-shared story.
- C14L 7y agoNeither of you two provided a source, so I would tend to not believe either statement. I think society will learn to handle fake news in precisely this way. Worrying, however, is when the academic research that is given as a source, is guided by ideology rather than by empiric research. And there seem to be more and more such cases.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoWhat source would you trust, though? People will just go after that source, to get their misinformation validated there.
- toss1 7y agoTrue, but merely by noticing your vocabulary choices, and evident familiarity with scientific research & standards, (& just that you are here) it is obvious that you are a massive outlier. Most people do not even begin to think so clearly. Which is why it it such a massive problem
- etrabroline 7y agoI think his point is that false newspaper reports are not new, educated people generally wait for credible sources, and it is not a massive problem compared to the increasing trend of what should be credible sources self censoring for political reasons.