do we have evidence theres more fake rightwing news than left? Only thing I found was buzzfeed article which asks a diff question
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @zeynep
again my assumption is this is the case but I'd like something solid before assuming so.
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
Not anything as definitive as I'd like. Facebook holds all the data. It's like tobacco companies have all medical records.
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
Imagine this in deeply ethnically-polarized societies. I'm afraid they will just attend a bit to US and ignore the world.
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Replying to @zeynep
there's obviously a lot of implications to the most powerful corporation in the world playing epistemology czar so it's also /1
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @zeynep
important to define concepts like "fake" and "true" and critically analyze the implications to the recent wave of concern over this
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
Yeah, for sure. But there is a lot of low hanging fruit here as in "This is totally fabricated" and "a fake newspaper."
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They didn't even bother with that. They spend more time deleting women's nipples & nudity.
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Replying to @zeynep @adamjohnsonNYC
Also, "dark" fake news is a bigger problem. You don't even know it's out there. Wrote about it in 2012, inspired by Obama+
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..campaign success; to say: look, the social media/big data method has issues, can go horribly wrong. Fell on deaf ears.
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Replying to @zeynep
I agree it's a problem but obvious implication of the piece that Clinton was undermined by fake news remains an assumption, no?
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It would go against everything we know about humans if an avalanche of "she killed FBI agent" stories from fake newspapers+
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