throwaway54675

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   by throwaway54675 10y ago

   Nobody said that all stories are fake. But if reasonable skepticism tells us that an unknown percentage might be then then they do not "raise awareness". It just tells us something between "one side is just virtue-signalling,
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   by throwaway54675 10y ago

   But now you have several problems: we don't know: * which reports are fake * which percentage of reports are fake * which side of the argument creates more fakes than other Maybe it's almost entirely a propaganda war with a few tr
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   by throwaway54675 10y ago

   It's not just professional outlets that create fake news. 4chan regularly does false-flagging to create a more heated discussion. And so does the other side, see mattress girl for example or the gas station thing mentioned elsewhere in
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   by throwaway54675 10y ago

   At least HN and twitter let me post under ever-changing pseudonyms. For all the vitriolic atmosphere that might create it also enables me to present deviant opinions without fear of that vitriol. Friction arises where real-name and pseudony
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   by throwaway54675 10y ago

   The issue is that those stories might be just as fabricated as those macedonian fake news sites. Maybe they're created for different reasons, but how are you supposed to trust a collection of unsourced text snippets? And even if we are