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"We identified N=2,000 users who shared false political news on Twitter" Who gets to say it's false? Activist journalists?
by eucryphia 5y ago
"We identified N=2,000 users who shared false political news on Twitter"
Who gets to say it's false?
Activist journalists?
- crooked-v 5y agoThe study lists eleven specific claims that were tracked, all objectively false, six of which were primarily shared by conservative users and four primarily shared by liberal users.
- thu2111 5y agoThat was my first thought too but I looked at the list of claims. They're all very US centric and I hadn't heard of any of them, but none obviously jumped out as true but rated false. There was one about a fabricated quote assigned to a US politician, and I couldn't find any original source for it (and it was suspiciously extreme anyway). At the very least if one was incorrectly classified you'd need to do some legwork to demonstrate that.