I think pretending there’s no such thing as “fakenews” is way more Orwellian than the term itself.
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Replying to @tqbf
I don't like the conflation of Breitbart and people making news they know is fake to content farm.
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Replying to @wycats
Me neither. We may have lost the semantic drift battle, but then: we need a new term.
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could take a constructivist approach too. What are signals of quality that are hard to hack
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Replying to @knowtheory @tqbf
I just don't see the point of trying to label Breitbart as "fake news." The people who like Breitbart won't be 1/
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Replying to @wycats @knowtheory
More importantly: Breitbart simply ISN’T fake news. Biased, slanted, wrong, probably! But fakenews is something else.
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Replying to @tqbf @knowtheory
yes exactly. *Exactly*
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