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A Nation Plagued by Misinformation
- loraa 6y agoAfter the whole 'Russiagate' scandal, it's easy to see where the misinformation comes from and its sad no one can handle the truth.
- s9w 6y agoThis text mentions Trump 41 times. I don't believe it belongs here.
- techdragon 6y agoHow does the number of times one of two people central to the point of the article are mentioned affect its relevance to HN? It seemed like the author left most of their own political opinions out of it and stayed mostly on focus about the topic of misinformation and how it affects other people’s political views. Seemed like decent enough actual journalism to me which given the lack of actual journalism available the says is something worth sharing for that alone.
- burgerzzz 6y agoI think if you search hard enough, you can find some type or form of misinformation that parts of the left accept as truth. The problem is they don't even try.
- Yoric 6y agoEverybody has their blind spots. Now how do we address that?
- burgerzzz 6y agoWe can't as far as I can see. The media is a huge machine that really influences the opinion among a lot of people. I don't know how to break out of this destructive situation other than reforming media, which seems like an impossibility.
- scottlocklin 6y agoTime magazine is a prime example of a disinformation outlet masquerading as a news source. The biggest issue facing our society isn't "disinformation." It's the change in media technology. It's no coincidence there was vast political unrest at the time of introduction of radio. The lizards who have been in charge of propaganda in the West for the last 100-odd years are nervous, as they should be, that they've lost control of the message because people are talking about things on the internets.
- burgerzzz 6y agoThe media is directly responsible for most of this. It amplifies and celebrates misinformation for more profits.
- optimiz3 6y agoI'd argue more specifically social media; countless snarky and sensational memes being promoted by AI to maximize views while propagating half-truths and lies. The Fox Newses and Huffington Posts provide the seeds, but it's social media that twists and amplifies the baseline propaganda. Also, we have a POTUS that has normalized disinformation and lies as long as the ends justify the means. The extremes of both parties have been happy to take this up since those are the playground rules now. A fish rots from the head.
- burgerzzz 6y agoTwitter is a plague. FB is different, because there's some accountability, and it's more similar to LinkedIn than Twitter. Blaming it on the POTUS is fine, but there's plenty of blame to spread around for sure.
- me_me_me 6y ago>The Fox Newses and Huffington Posts provide the seeds Seeds? They are desperately trying to fight for attention of common man that is sucked into social media dopamine drip. Its a loosing battle and they are pushing boundaries of journalism (though not sure if that term applies to fox news anymore). Report something second too late and loose half of potential viewers/readers - when facebook/blogs have no problem reporting anything, how a newspaper suppose to verify story before publishing? By the time its verified its old news and people are already on some other outrage.
- Gys 6y agoSure, blame someone else. But this is essentially all of us: we want to make money and at the same time everything for free. We simply need a governement to protect us from ourselves.
- ykevinator 6y agoI hate the false equivalence. It's not a nation plagued by misinformation, it's a single party.