Re:How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
by norikki on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:42PM
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The point of the article is to discourage 'non-approved' news sources because they must all be fake like this bus thing was. Its propaganda to try and keep the NYT relevant despite their lies and deception such as promoting the war in Iraq.
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Re:How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
by noobermin on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:54PM
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To be fair to the article, the origin of the misconception was a single tweet, which I'm not sure really counts as "non-approved" news sources. The second stage of the stories spread was reddit, which I think too isn't really a news source, or may be that's what you mean.
Re:How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
by norikki on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:28PM
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Of course primary sources are 'non-appoved'. Thats why CNN was caught telling listeners that it was illegal for anyone but CNN to read the WikiLeak Podesta emails.
When I saw the bus thing I questioned how the guy knew the buses were full of protestors, and then stopped caring because it was just some guy on twitter. The MSM want you to blindly accept their narrative and lose the ability to tell fact from fiction.