Just because not all assessments are easy doesn't mean none are. There are big known categories of fake news that can easily be caught.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
Climate change denial, holocaust denial, anti-vax, etc. all come to mind as very simple and clear-cut.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Clearly it's not so simple and clear cut because NYT's editorial staff allowed this one through. That's the whole point.
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Replying to @pwnallthethings
They HIRED a known climate-denial clown. That's not "let through" - it's intentional.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
It's not about truth. It's about bothsidesism in the face of a political climate where an utterly false narrative has big following.
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The operative Q isn't whether Bret or NYT are right, but whether 3rd parties should intervene to penalize the article to combat "fake news"
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Replying to @pwnallthethings
And the answer is yes they should. This is not the hard question you are making it out to be.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
wait, there is one factual error coming from his misreading of 2 sentences in a linked report. otherwise opinion is adj/adv choice etc
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Replying to @rseymour @pwnallthethings
The problem is that the entire "opinion" is counter-factual, not a topic of opinion. Minor slip-up/CYA-failure is not the problem.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
I think that stance sounds logical until you look at the democratic process which elected a denier. Convincing the masses requires leveling
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No, it requires cutting off the channels of disinformation. Letting their disinformation have mainstream platforms is what got him elected.
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Month after month of "news" filled with nothing but manufactured scandals. Cut that crap off.
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