I'd be cool w/FB sharing how they came up w/their claim just .1% of sharing InfoOps. But this op-ed is a hot mess https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/facebook-could-tell-us-how-russia-interfered-in-our-elections-why-wont-it/2017/05/19/c061a606-3b21-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b797bd94cb90 …
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There are some discrete things I'm very interested in, such whether RU was working 4Chan to seed certain stories.
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But generally fake news worked bc America is deeply unhealthy, in part bc of fake news going back to the 1990s.
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yeah totally. the rabbit holes involved in this are fascinating
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"fake news" also worked because of years of Fox especially telling viewers not to trust any other MSM.
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Yup. That's what I meant by my 1990s comment. Tho I'd add that that distrust is made worse from increased illegitimacy of dominant ideology.
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I agree. But there's also an element of feedback loop. Alternative media sources constantly invoke the idea that...
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the "dominant ideology" (whatever that means) is illegitimate and unpopular, people start to follow that, then...
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Right. Pointing out the financial system was built on a house of cards was bad. Pointing out that there were no WMD, also bad.
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