Fake News

[Speaker to Animals]

He lays out how this whole fake narrative was constructed pretty well here.

Skip ahead a few minutes.

[C-Mag]

He lays out how this whole fake narrative was constructed pretty well here.

Skip ahead a few minutes.

Starts around 12 min mark

[Speaker to Animals]

Worst advice all week:

http://archive.is/2qGR4

[de officiis]

He lays out how this whole fake narrative was constructed pretty well here.

Skip ahead a few minutes.

Starts around 12 min mark

Why does this guy make me feel like a four-year-old? Jesus.

[Hastur]

This is Scott Adams' brother:


What is he reading? This:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... ign=buffer

Why is he laughing? It's a hit piece full of lies and deceit. Scott explains what happened here:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1587090870 ... -bloomberg

[BjornP]

Not an article about fake news per se, and it's from 2012 before the term "fake news" became a thing. But it explains, I think, how fake news can be so succesful despite being fake, and how come people will believe said fake news long after it's been proven a hoax.

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/20 ... facts.html

Psychologists are demonstrating that repetition is the prime conduit for shaping beliefs. In the 1940s, Floyd Allport and Milton Lepkin conducted pioneering research demonstrating that newspapers could be used to boost morale for the war effort. By repeating positive headlines, even if they were misleading with the details, the public would believe that events are going smoothly, and would thus stand firmly behind the cause. The tactic worked to great effect.

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Unfortunately, once familiar misinformation is embedded into our psyche, it can be incredibly difficult to dislodge. ...

We already live in the rise of online ideological bubbles with a way for people - some with nothing more than a profit motive (ads on the "news" sites) - to disseminate fake news, fake science, fake history and generally fake information. So, given the popularity of social media acting the part of the "repetitors" of fake information by spreading it amongst their bubbles, and given that people seem to prefer to simply opt for the "Yell even louder!" option instead of the more difficult task of convincing people, I am left to wonder how long a society can survive without the most basic shared notion of what constitutes facts and what does not. Can't be very healthy for a reliable justice system, at the very least.

[Okeefenokee]

This is Scott Adams' brother:


What is he reading? This:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... ign=buffer

Why is he laughing? It's a hit piece full of lies and deceit. Scott explains what happened here:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1587090870 ... -bloomberg

nice.

[The Conservative]

He lays out how this whole fake narrative was constructed pretty well here.

Skip ahead a few minutes.

Starts around 12 min mark

Why does this guy make me feel like a four-year-old? Jesus.

it's easy to get schooled by someone who has a microphone, a camera and an air of superiority.

[de officiis]

it's easy to get schooled by someone who has a microphone, a camera and an air of superiority.

It's kind of frightening. I mean, who's he used to talking with, pre-adolescents?

[The Conservative]

it's easy to get schooled by someone who has a microphone, a camera and an air of superiority.

It's kind of frightening. I mean, who's he used to talking with, pre-adolescents?

No, just people who he deems need to be taught how to think...