These are less about consumer use. And you'd be surprised how many get their news from Facebook because of shares and promoted pieces.
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These are less about consumer use. And you'd be surprised how many get their news from Facebook because of shares and promoted pieces.
In my opinion everyone who uses facebook is an idiot.
An anecdotal and skewed telling of one story does not justify ignoring the absolute fact that lies, misinformation and purposeful manipulation of semi-truths have become ubiquitous in social media, and the Republican Administration. Pretending there is some balance because one can point to "that one time" it happened the other way only causes me to roll my eyes at someone as either a conspiratist, an alt-right troll, or one who is not willing or able to judge facts versus emotionally satisfying drivel.
We can all agree, I assume, that there is danger in letting Facebook/Google arbitrate "truth". That is explicitly NOT what they are doing here. They are trying to provide tools so at least some critical thinkers won't be tricked by 'verifiably' false information. For instance - the Bowling Green massacre. How can that possibly be a bad thing?
Well I hope this works b'cuz I certainly can't decide for myself!
We're cattle!
We're cattle!
In general and obviously for news.
One has to be a complete nincompoop to rely on 'facebook' for news.
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If you seriously want to know and can’t find it in a search I can PM you.
I was deliberately vague in my description of the incident to get my point across. If I named the parties involved, the political party victim of the incident will become the focal point of the post. People that do not share the political beliefs with the victim may just dismiss the story based off of their biases, and the people that like that party could like the post just because they identify with those politics and not on the merit of the story.
My political beliefs are right down the middle of the political spectrum, so when discussing politics I am constantly on the defense with both parties. Although I do believe that one political party tends to be negatively focused on by the news media, while the other party tends to get a free pass.
Similarly, on the MR forums I regularly get replied to my posts, being labeled as both an “Apple Hater/basher”, and an “Apple fanboy/defender”. Once this happened in the same thread.
Anyways, that was why I was vague in my description.
Im sure this will be bipartisan and totally neutral, just like these stories from respected news outlets were called out as being fake:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won/
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
George Orwell, 1984
Well there are impressions, stories come up in the facebook feed all the time and go viral. Then there is the trending news on the right column. There are people who get their news without knowing they're getting the "news".
Twitter is fun for trends and breaking news and "word on the street" type stuff. 24 hour news cycle programs like FNC, CNN, MSNBC are just propaganda channels where you go to hear what you want to hear. I try to scan everything and see if I can read between the lines as it were. If I'm good at it is another discussion.
Trump did another great service for mankind once again: He resurrected interest in 1984
Only problem is that the regressives think it's instructions ...
I've never met a person worth meeting who uses facebook - for anything ...
It's a moron-service for a generation of insane morons.
You are right, one story of an event might be anecdotal, but how many stories need to be posted before questioning the bias of the so-called fact checkers?
I am not saying there shouldn't be fact checking, I am just saying that when you have a source of information as big as Google telling people what is the truth, there could be issues with bias.
Surely, it will be great to crack down on all click bait and misinformation from all sides, and I bet you can find a lot all over. The list from Brietbart and infowars dwarfs your above list FOR TODAY ALONE, but as others point out elsewhere, let's just agree it's nonpartisan and bad everywhere. Hold everyone to journalistic and ethical standards above where they are even now. Block all sites who repeatedly and purposefully spread lies without retraction. I enthusiastically endorse the idea that ALL websites who repeatedly post false news without retraction should be blocked by mainstream news amalgamation. We're all happy now, right?
I bet not. Now it's a conspiracy of the elite liberal media establishment, right? Infowars ISN'T actually a cesspool of lies and hatred, it's just the enemy of the powerful?
There will always be crackpots spouting nonsense in some dark corner of the internet. I'm worried about the big stuff said by people who matter - like the president of the united states or his direct spokespeople. The Bowling Green massacre is not just bad for it's insanity, but for who, how and why it was said.
This is basically people on a large scale. The group becomes a different organism altogether and is overall more impulsive than the individual and easily manipulated mostly unaware of its full potential.
Imagine every bird with a screen in front of them telling them what to think!
That's a pretty nasty comment.
The truth is nasty and people hate to hear it.
People are nasty. The truth doesn't have emotion.
I think I know the event you are insinuating to. Was it when Trump claimed he did not support the war in Iraq and Lester Holt brought that a 2002 interview shows otherwise? Because if so, I disagree with your assessment that "the moderator was wrong."
In any case, apparently this forum frowns down on being coy and not providing a citation when asked. I was recently suspended for a few days for not providing a citation when asked.
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This says a lot about our tweeting idiot president as well.
Correct. We need more unbiased left-leaning news in everyone's feed, instead of the biased right-wing news.
Remember, the right-wing is the one that lies, since they do not have rational facts to back them. That is why they love guns so much - they have to kill instead of being convincing.
Yeah i know... ours was named Skippy... he was a door prize from a bank when one of the bros had the winning ticket and claimed him (slightly embarrasing from the outset since our grandpa worked at the bank and the prize rules didn't disqualify relatives from winning, oy vey).
Anyway the cute pup turned into a neurotic collie longing to work at something besides wearing a path from the chainlink fence's gate by the driveway around the barn to the other gate by the trashcans. Off to the shelter he went when the bro was at camp one time. We didn't get the fake news treatment though, we were too old for that gig. What the parents got from that moment forward though was payback: fifty years of lecture about being too cowardly to tell the truth in timely fashion and permit alternate arrangements to be explored. We never did find out if the dog was euthanized or adopted. I guess shelters are used to little kids' voices asking about whatever happened to Skippy, because they would not discuss whether a Skippy had been brought there or what happened to him.
All those dogs and kitties who crossed the rainbow bridge that way are waiting for us on the other side. And I think they know who their friends are. All others get "fake news" etched into their jeans pockets upon arrival.