Re:Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
by jerrre on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:54AM
(#21123030)
I'm already looking forward to serious articles that are going to be ironically labeled as satire (obviously again misunderstood by some percentage of the population)
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Re:Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
by MaysonL on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:46AM
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As opposed to the Onion articles which are confusingly close to actual news. [or are merely prescient]
Re:Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
by rjf72 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:57AM
(#21125976)
For what it's worth this is new, and intentional. In 2016 Haim Saban, Clinton's top financial supporter, purchased The Onion and immediately transitioned it to an outlet for propaganda under the guise of satire. [1] They rapidly went from running articles like 'Hillary Clinton Tries To Woo Voters By Rescinding Candidacy' [2] to "Why Don't People Like Hillary Clinton?" [3] with reasons such as suggesting in allusion to her being a woman (twice), because she's smart, or verbatim because she "Suffers from unfortunate speech impediment of sounding like a capable, self-possessed woman".
[1] - https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/ha-ha-hillary-clintons-t...
[2] - https://politics.theonion.com/hillary-clinton-tries-to-woo-v...
[3] - https://politics.theonion.com/why-don-t-people-like-hillary-...