@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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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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O’Keefe paid by big GOP donors; “news” forger paid by Google?
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Also, how were they accessed?
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O’Keefe’s stunts are all over the MSM or once were; NYT “forger” used FB to promote his fabrications-spread like wildfire
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Here’s my previous answer to your ? about O’Keefehttps://twitter.com/sponson/status/821801225817640965 …
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