Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors

Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by EJTH on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:21AM (#12699481)

NYT published a news article about car fires in Denmark, where they blamed the "right wing lower class" for the fires. No evidence given for this at all. Infact all evidence points in a different direction: Arab Ghetto kids (I live in one of the places, where there was car fires, I can tell you that the right-wing thing is complete BS)

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by argonaut on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:12AM (#12699869)

If this is the article you are talking about: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/world/europe/copenhagen-de..., you are misreading it.

"One theory is that cars in Denmark are being burned by individuals from an angry underclass in a country where far-right groups have organized bitter protests against immigration, calling it a threat to the nation’s identity."

The article makes it clear the "angry underclass" is separate from the "far-right groups."

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by quirkafleeg on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:26AM (#12700234)

If that paragraph is not suggesting the far-right may be responsible, why does it refer to their "bitter protests" immediately after the theory that an "angry underclass" are burning cars?

Why even mention the far-right at all, if nobody is suggesting they have something to do with these crimes?

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by panic on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:44AM (#12700328)

They're implying that the far-right protests caused the "Arab ghetto kids" in question to become the "angry underclass", not that the "angry underclass" was itself far-right. The sentence could definitely be written more clearly.

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by EJTH on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:56AM (#12700758)

I think it is a wrong thing to imply. Just looking at the crime statistics for the past decade debunks this hypothesis.

The arab demographic has always been troublesome in Scandinavia.

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by Cpoll on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:46AM (#12701523)

I interpret it as "individuals from an angry underclass" vs "far-right groups [that] have organized bitter protests against immigration"

So the far-right is implied to have something to do with these crimes, in the sense that they created an environment that triggers the crime.

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by argonaut on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:36AM (#12716952)

The NYT clearly blames the crime on.... the people committing the crime. The NYT is not blaming the crime on the far right. If anything, they are blaming it on the Arab ghetto kids which is what the OP was claiming was the truth.

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by argonaut on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:36AM (#12716954)

They are suggesting the far-right is angering the underclass. If you're asserting the NY Times is therefore blaming the crimes on the far-right, good luck!

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