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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@adamjohnsonNYC You quoted my tweets in thread, thus incomplete. Paraphrased me wrong. DID NOT email to ask or to tell me you wrote this!!!6 replies 4 retweets 20 likes -
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@adamjohnsonNYC Why am I learning about being quoted wildly out of context from 140 char chunks and bady paraphrased from a Google alert?3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
FWIW, I don't much mind
@adamjohnsonNYC didn't contact me but I'm a journo w/a PhD on (in significant part) fiction in newspapers.2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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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Replying to @emptywheel @lookoutcoffee
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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Replying to @emptywheel @lookoutcoffee
May be the case, but imo losing the analytic distinction hurts how to fight different failures—even if related.
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Yup. We've discussed. As I've said 2 issues 1) causation (shitty news>acceptance of fake 2) TM still does do fake
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& I think algorithms are something discrete we can address. @lookoutcoffee
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