There is no, and never was, "perfect news." Pls stop referring to every mode of failure of news as "fake news". Conflation is not analysis.
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Replying to @zeynep
Again, the reason fake news has gained purchase recently is bc of major fail at traditional media. They cannot be separated.
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Replying to @emptywheel @zeynep
And WaPo more than any other outlet has to live by the terms it has adopted. It failed its own fake news criteria here.
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Replying to @emptywheel
No it hasn't. Different mode of failure. So obviously so that I'm not sure there can be a serious discussion.
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Replying to @zeynep @emptywheel
Reports story without sufficient techical understanding—then retracts. Can't tell that from "Pope endorses Trump" at click farm?
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Replying to @zeynep @emptywheel
PS. (WaPo's won fake news story was garbage—but that also doesn't make the fraudulent clicks/misinformation farms non-existent).
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Replying to @zeynep
PPS: WaPo's failures are far more dangerous to democracy.
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Replying to @emptywheel @zeynep
I have work colleagues who genuinely believe clinton murdered dozens of people. They read it on Facebook. Seems damaging
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Replying to @beardedcrank
Sure. but some of that stems from 1990s era cable news, not Facebook. Vince Foster stories.
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Replying to @emptywheel @zeynep
but the numbers they were quoting were 47, which seems ... high. She'd be one of the greatest serial killers in history.
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Almost everything has antecedents. Doesn't make it the same.
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