The #fakenews about Iraqi WMD DID get hundreds of thousands killed. https://twitter.com/peterwsinger/status/806126607740104704 …
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Replying to @emptywheel
Conflating two very, very different types of failures is not helpful.
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Replying to @zeynep
How are they different? What is "not helpful" abt treating all fake news similarly?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Because the mechanisms are drastically different. Isn't it terribly obvious?
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Replying to @emptywheel
NYT: journalists played/succumbing to powerful. "Pope endorsed Trump": a hoax made lucrative by social media ecology/demand.
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Replying to @zeynep @emptywheel
Very different mechanisms; different impacts; different solutions. Conflate the two, you have no way forward.
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Replying to @zeynep
IMO, you absolutely cannot separate popularity of fake news from past elite fake news. But I agree mechanism is different.
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Everything has antecedents and context. Doesn't make them the same thing.
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