@emptywheel Does the fact that the phrase “Fake News” is misused, mean that no one is faking “news”? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/fake-news-hillary-clinton-cameron-harris.html …
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My mistake; I thought you had expressed antipathy toward the term “fake news” in general
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Yes, the term is a fetish used by people who believe our "news" is something it's not. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/01/15/on-fake-news/ …
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What’s a better term for what Macedonian teenagers and opportunists like the guy profiled in NYT are doing? Their product?
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I've been trying to push algo-driven misinformation.
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As in algorithms causing people to selectively view “news” they want to hear?
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Well, no. bc Algos don't explain why people choose Fox over MSNBC, where the very same thing fosters shitty journalism too.
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Then what algorithms are you referring to?
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Take a step back: What distinguishes what this guy did from what James O'Keefe has done, to much greater effect, for years?
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