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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by geowwy on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:21AM (#19051842)
There are journalists that do that, e.g. Tim Pool. I watched a series he did on the so-call "no go zones" in Sweden which is worth watching. You can see he tries hard to push through the competing narratives and get to just the facts.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxQaod7tWvYK_Naia54Gc...

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by SlowRobotAhead on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:42AM (#19051940)
That was a great series for something lots of people say doesn’t exist in the slightest.
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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by pjc50 on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:14AM (#19053477)
Reporting on this reporting: https://www.indy100.com/article/sweden-trip-crowdfunded-righ...

The question is, has he remained independent from his decidedly partial funder?

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by bayulxc5 on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:48AM (#19054013)
Do you have any proof that he didn't remain independent, or you just want to stir the pot? All I can see in that link is a newspaper saying "this guy got donations by someone we don't like, so he must be lying".

I see it's all video in that investigation, do the videos look like they've been manipulated?

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by api on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:05AM (#19054128)
I've found that for issues that are this extremely politically polarized and where there is this much misinformation floating around, the only way to really know would be to buy a plane ticket and go there. You can't trust any source.

A bit of a tangent but: this is how you keep secrets in the Information Age. You can't actually keep a secret, but you can fog up the air with so much competing nonsense that nobody knows what to believe and the secret is indistinguishable from noise.

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by moorhosj on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:38AM (#19054936)
Well, he did say, "Chicago has about 750 murders each year." This seems off to me based on the facts.

Murders in Chicago the last 10 years:

2009 - 463

2010 - 456

2011 - 449

2012 - 514

2013 - 455

2014 - 464

2015 - 512

2016 - 808

2017 - 683

2018 - 588

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