Again, do you have criteria? Because you get closer and closer to saying only non-institutional things are fake news @adamjohnsonNYC
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Can't do a 140 definition; working on longer material. Definitely want to differentiate trad journalism failure.
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do you believe "traditional journalism" cannot, by definition, publish fake news?
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @emptywheel
It fails in different ways than what got called "fake news" does. It can fail horribly. But not same. That's it.
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So, yes, you're making a completely deterministic thing that can be proven false by 100s of examples.
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Again, you might want to make an arg abt "algo-driven misinfo." But wow. You can't just claim journalism exempt.
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When Megyn Kelly says Jesus is white, is that real news?
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Doug Johnson Hatlem Retweeted zeynep tufekci
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@zeynep like you are saying MSM never purposely tries to fool people?@emptywheel@adamjohnsonNYChttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/816296368465727488 …Doug Johnson Hatlem added,
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No. Please don't quote out of context.
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Reupping the question. When Megyn Kelly says that Jesus is white is that fake news?
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That kind of statement is no interest to what I'm talking about. Not discussing if Jesus resurrected either.
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How is "pope endorses Trump" different in quality from "Jesus has the same race as I do"?
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Especially since point is the same: attempt to coopt religion primarily for a member group.
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