Re:Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news ...
by StreamBright on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:55AM
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Can you link a fake news example from WL?
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Re:Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news ...
by crankylinuxuser on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:19PM
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The problem is that "fake news" is undefined. It could be
pure lies
partial truth / known lies
partial truth / unprovable assertions
conjecture passed as news
limited snippets biasing intended viewpoint
commentary (Fox "news")
Disagree with assertions
Propaganda by state actor
And those are what I could think of in a few minutes. Worse yet, who's to be the arbiter of "truth"? What credentials do they have? And why would we believe them to be transparent with truthiness ratings? They will have bias - will we be able to discern? Doubtful.The underlying thing, is that when things are bought to light, the truth surfaces. Yet now, the attack is on the very definition of "truth", playing the ultimate word definition game.
Re:Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news ...
by buboard on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:28PM
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Of those, only the first two qualify as "fake news", i.e. false news. To claim that "real news" do not contain the rest is ludicrous.
Re:Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news ...
by crankylinuxuser on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:59PM
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You made my point, that the definition of "fake news" is undefined. Pretty much anything can be pointed at and yelled "Fake News". And that's what we're seeing.
Re:Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news ...
by syntheticcdo on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:04AM
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Fake news is news that is fake -- aka entirely fabricated with no basis in reality. "13 Obama supporters arrested for terrorist plot"-- boom, just made that up. That's fake news. Anything with a basis in reality is not.
Re:Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news ...
by quantumwoke on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:14PM
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It's always hard to agree on a definition of fake news, but their tweets are well documented to be extremely biased these days - even the tweet linked above uses loaded language like 'neocon'.