I wrote about the botched Washington Post Vermont scare and the ever slippery definition of "Fake news"http://fair.org/home/wapo-spreading-own-falsehoods-shows-real-power-of-fake-news/ …
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(Not a security researcher)
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copy will change
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No big deal. Dunno why you didn't call me a journo but lots of people don't know my PhD is directly on point.
@zeynep -
I suppose I thought you were both.
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Haven't done code since I was 18. I have, however, done work that at time was pretty new on fiction in newspapers.
@zeynep
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how about calling pope endorse type mock news? Better specific description than fake news. Like Onion
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I'm actually increasingly interested in differentiating algo-driven narrative fr editor driven.
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Topia is complex and consequential which is why I don't want it just folded into trad media's (many) failings.
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That may be what you want, but I would argue it is not a sustainable position. We disagree on that tho, I get it.
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But I will continue to suggest "algo-driven misinfo" may get around categorical problems of excluding Trad Med
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I'm linguistic descriptivist, and a term emerged recently though we are losing it which was my issue.
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Yeah. Seeing as how I've had these discussions abt 19th C news I don't think it's a recent thing. Could be me!
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But not that term.
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