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Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?
- changoplatanero 6y agoThis is a well known thing inside facebook fake news teams
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoArticle is paywalled. Outline link: https://outline.com/pc7NqB https://outline.com/pc7NqB
- pmdulaney 6y agoI've never heard of outline before. Would you mind explaining how it works?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoIt's essentially 'Reader Mode', except as a website rather than as a browser feature. You give Outline a URL, and it gives you back a URL of its 'purified' copy of the page's contents, stripped of spam and bloat. In this instance, it seems to have had no trouble with the paywall.
- blakesterz 6y ago"Last month a poll by YouGov found that 44% of Republicans think Bill Gates wants to use covid-19 vaccines to implant microchips in people; 19% of Democrats agree." That number, for both parties, was much higher than I would've guessed.
- xenospn 6y agoBased on both numbers I'd have to say this is completely made up. There's no possible way this is real. I've seen those "Bill gates as the elder of zion" memes circulated around once or twice but the people who did share those are the same people who share healing crystal and astrology memes, and they're not 20% of the population.
- itsspring 6y agoI would have to agree. Unless they only interviewed the people who saw a targeted campaign of just that fake info, and then asked how many of them believed it. But broadly there's no way that's an accurate percentage
- cameronfraser 6y agoI heard this from a real life human being recently, was quite the shock. They then keep saying things like "Coronavirus is just a flu"
- benjohnson 6y agoChecking the source - it was a Yahoo poll. Not to be rude to people that use Yahoo, but my impressions is that you'd need to poll from other sources to find a representative example of your typical American.
- xenospn 6y agoTruth has a liberal bias.
- LycheeKing 6y ago>Truth has a liberal bias. Would you like to explain? Or was this sarcasm?
- pmdulaney 6y agoI think he means that in the nature of the case liberals are most likely to be correct because liberalism generally aligns with the truth better than conservatism does. As a conservative I would say conservatives (perhaps) err more often on low-level particulars whereas liberals tend to err on big picture, how-the-world-works issues.
- krapp 6y agoIt's also possibly a reference to a quote made by Steven Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner[0] that "reality has a well know liberal bias." [0]https://youtu.be/IJ-a2KeyCAY?t=249 https://youtu.be/IJ-a2KeyCAY?t=249
- tmp1234515 6y agohttps://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-liberal-yes-but-it-doesnt-mean-all-conservatives-are-stupid-57713 https://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-...
- tmp1234515 6y agoDo smart people tend to be more liberal? https://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-liberal-yes-but-it-doesnt-mean-all-conservatives-are-stupid-57713 https://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-...
- pmdulaney 6y agoSadly, the answer is yes.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoQuoting from the article: "On the available evidence, the presence of people subscribing to economic liberalism within the ostensibly conservative parties in the US, UK and Australia makes it very unlikely that a substantial correlation – either positive or negative – will be found between political conservatism and intelligence." So the answer seems to be no?
- Simulacra 6y agoTo look at it another way: maybe it’s not fooling, but knowingly aiding In their point of view, true or not.