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According to the piece, the fact checkers claimed an opinion piece was false because all of the facts in it were cherry picked: "The researchers found that the
by fdschoeneman 6y ago
According to the piece, the fact checkers claimed an opinion piece was false because all of the facts in it were cherry picked:
"The researchers found that the post by the CO2 Coalition was based on cherry-picked information to mislead readers into thinking climate science models are wrong about global warming."
This is not a logical argument. Facts are correct or incorrect, whether they're cherrypicked or not.
- LoSboccacc 6y agocherry picking truths and listing them out of context (i.e. wildfire reduction without mentioning land usage changed) may not be fake news, but it definitely smells like propaganda not defending Facebook actions, which are wrong for a different set of motives detached from the actual article quality, but this isn't the censorship smoking gun people want it to be
- pas 6y agoThey claimed it was misleading, no?