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Re:Fake News Challenge by RandyRanderson on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:50PM (#13546202)
Noam called it manufacturing consent and it's been a thing for quite a while[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Re:Fake News Challenge by zzzcpan on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:33PM (#13546535)
Interesting that his propaganda model [1] actually breaks a bit with the age of internet. Social media, news aggregators, small independent bloggers and small independent news outlets don't have the described biases. Algorithmic filters are somehow unbiased. Independent person/outlet can question the government, capitalism, doesn't have to trust government's spokesmen, doesn't have to publish them, doesn't even have to make money. In a way all those "news bubbles" and "fake news" are actually anti-bubbles and make "democracy" more "democratic".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

Re:Fake News Challenge by intended on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:27PM (#13547858)
No it doesn't work that way. It's a nice theory, but I've been a mod on a national sub for a while, and I've been on forums since around/before slashdot.

You can very easily overwhelm the signal with noise. The plethora of independents means nothing if only a few of them get heard.

Matter of fact, with some pushing, you can have one "independent" dominate a large portion of the channel. At some juncture the network effect takes over and the process becomes self sustaining, you just need to play on people's/your target markets biases well.

This is a people problem, and people are getting way too good and understanding and manipulating the biases of other people.