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    Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 27 Jul 2017
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    The moral panic about fake news is like making mountain out of a molehill. With always only the "others" susceptible https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacob_Nelson7/publication/318470831_Fake_News_Fake_Problem_An_Analysis_of_the_Fake_News_Audience_in_the_Lead_Up_to_the_2016_Presidential_Election/links/596cfe3a0f7e9b8144413207/Fake-News-Fake-Problem-An-Analysis-of-the-Fake-News-Audience-in-the-Lead-Up-to-the-2016-Presidential-Election.pdf …pic.twitter.com/ZAslWaNjn1

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      2. Chris Baraniuk‏ @chrisbaraniuk 27 Jul 2017
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        This assumes that people's thoughts are influenced proportionally by the news sources they encounter. Data on what they actually share or...

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      3. Chris Baraniuk‏ @chrisbaraniuk 27 Jul 2017
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        ...promote on social media *suggests* otherwise. But it is fair to say measuring the impact of this stuff is a very difficult business.

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      2. bobbiedog  🐺 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🏁‏ @wuffgrrl 27 Jul 2017
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        This is so clearly refuted by just about anyone’s lived experience throughout the 2016 US election… the Internet was awash with total crap.

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        And I refuse to believe that nobody actually read the headlines/stories because I had people shrieking at me about it on a near-daily basis.

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      1. jjw358‏ @jjw358 27 Jul 2017
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        1/ what is diff betw fake news site and real news site the reader doesnt trust? what if "fake news" main outcome is no one trusts any news?

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      1. jjw358‏ @jjw358 27 Jul 2017
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        2/also taleb point that small %of pop can taint entire population. if 5-10% of pop believe/preach fake news, entire pop may end up believing

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      1. Alex‏ @venturewriter 27 Jul 2017
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        FB generates outsized traffic to fake news site but the audience is tiny. The real harm is in creating distrust to reputable media.

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      1. Bethankit Hums‏ @tangibullah 27 Jul 2017
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        Not convinced: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592 

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