If a critical detail of the story is false but it's reported as real, that's a false report. Many, many people were repeating false version of story.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
And it was subsequently corrected. If someone’s still reporting today that everyone was killed at Snake Island, of course that’s misinformation. Report it.
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Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet
But I’m not aware that any reputable news organization kept reporting that everyone was killed. It was big news when all those guards were found to be alive.
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Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet
And of course, nobody’s getting sanctioned for occasional factual errors. YouTube is responding to a blanket refusal to label known disinformation, not passing errors.
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I can go on youtube and in 2 seconds find a Joe Rogen video arguing ancient art was created by space aliens & Jordan Petterson arguing ancients had knowledge of DNA. I'm not sure I understand the standard here.
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There’s also the issue of purporting to be journalism, indeed “straight news” to use Robbie’s parlance.
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I would like to see YouTube crack down on health misinformation, too, but it’s gotta start somewhere and incredibly consequential and politically toxic lies like Trump’s election conspiracies are a logical place to start.
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For all I know, YouTube does insist that health journalists identify false claims about vaccines when they quote disinfo merchants. If they don’t, they should. Twitter has banned Covid disinfo, although enforcement is uneven.
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Should CBS be banned for spreading this false information?pic.twitter.com/8bjDDdC3cG
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But CBS did the right thing. They quoted the official accurately and then they provided context that his claim appears to be false and radiation levels do not appear to be rising! Which is all anybody’s asking for.pic.twitter.com/jQ0dDtIJsB
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The headline and deck doesn't convey any of that, and the norm now is not to repeat false information but to flag it as false in headline.
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