The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads

Re:The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads by mrdrozdov on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:34PM (#13041201)

Thanks. According to Snopes, the story is False [1]. It's pretty ridiculous that "credible" news sources can write a story like this and then take no responsibility when it's wrong. I don't think it's enough to just correct a story after the fact. There should be a fine or search engine punishment, or something along these lines.

For instance, I read this story earlier on Variety and it was presented as fact. If you go back to the same url [2] the story and headline have completely changed.

Previous Headline: Cable Operator Snafu in Boston Leads to Porn Airing on CNN...

Current Headline: CNN, RCN Deny Reports of Porn Airing on Channel in Boston

[1]: http://www.snopes.com/cnn-half-hour-porn/ [2]: http://variety.com/2016/legit/news/cnn-porn-boston-rcn-cable...

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Re:The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads by dingaling on Saturday November 26, 2016 @12:58AM (#13041962)

> According to Snopes, the story is False.

But according to the content page, Snopes does't know. It's probably or most likely false but CNN and RCN are still investigating, so we don't know for certain.

But just as some news are keen to run with any rumour as news, Snopes seems keen to mark rumours as False as quickly as possible for the same reason; put content online that gets clicks.

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Re:The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads by mrdrozdov on Saturday November 26, 2016 @07:32AM (#13043168)

What is the content page?

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Re:The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads by grrowl on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:17AM (#13042668)

It feels like news should run with [unverified] tags until multiple sources are found.

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