Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors

Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by paulmd on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:48AM (#12701549)

Breitbart is a tabloid that pretends to respectability, much like the British tabloid The Daily Mail. They use that respectability to push their (explicit, strong) slant. If you're comparing CNN and Breitbart then their camouflage is sucessful.

Benefit of the doubt needs to be earned. I mean, hopefully you are not taking supermarket-checkout tabloids at face value, right?

CNN may be terrible journalism that's full of softballs and "clickbait" but at the end of the day the things they report are true and when they're not they retract them. Can't say the same about Breitbart in the least.

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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by aaron-lebo on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:06PM (#12701700)

CNN has been doing a lot of selective editing this cycle. They also tend to focus on things that support their narrative. You can focus on things that are completely true and effectively "lie" about those truths because of the way you are presenting it.

Softballs and clickbait aren't any more true than lies.

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