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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by hueving on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:57AM (#12698802)
>For your statement to be valid, you'd have to prove that there is a considerable amount of information missing and is only available via conservative media.

No, information may have been made available by biased media, but it may have been presented in such a way to adjust the perceived significance of it.

Take the email scandal for example. Every news outlet provided the information, but there are vastly different conclusions about the importance of it that a reader will be led to draw based on how the information was presented.

Even the headline you were upset about was a logical conclusion given a viewpoint based on the information available about the recent shooting of the police officers.

Information: Two policeman killed by a man who was in the country illegally

Conservative news interpretation: Illegal immigrant a result of poor border control policies by current administration. Therefore, "Obama lets immigrants across border to kill white people."

Liberal news interpretation: Immigration is a touchy subject right now, exclude anything related to it. Therefore, "Two policeman were killed by a person who happened to be a human."

Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by jsmith0295 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:56AM (#12699782)
Here's an example of something that was not reported outside of conservative media: http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/cnn-edits-out-...