Fake news for liberals: misinformation leans left

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Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of the fact-checking site Snopes, said she had seen a spike in the amount and popularity of fake news directed toward liberal audiences.

“Whoever is in power is going to be the target,” said Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org

On the left, there are numerous styles of misinformation that appear to be gaining traction.

In addition to blatantly fabricated stories, there have been increasing concerns about articles featuring deceitful and hyperbolic headlines, viral memes that have a very tenuous connection to the truth and poorly sourced articles that use inaccurate visuals to draw readers.

Other recent fake or misleading stories catering to progressive audiences include a LearnProgress.org piece that said Melania Trump was selling jewelry on the White House website; a viral story about a boy handcuffed at an airport due to Trump’s immigration ban, which was actually from 2015; and a Polticot.com story with a fabricated Mike Pence quote about abortion and rape.

Progressives have also widely shared tweets from a number of accounts claiming to be rogue government officials speaking out against Trump, even though there’s no evidence that they are run by public servants.

Liberal anxieties about Trump have created an appetite for false news, and social psychology dictates that fearful people may be more gullible, said Claire Wardle, research director with First Draft News. Users are especially susceptible when stories and images appear directly in their social feeds, she added. “If one of your peers sends something, you already trust them. So you are much less likely to be critical.”

Outrage at Trump ultimately makes users vulnerable to false stories, said Fil Menczer, a professor at Indiana University. And if progressives do start reading higher quantities of fake news, he said, the country would probably become even more divided. “It means more polarization, more segregation and stronger echo chambers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/06/liberal-fake-news-shift-trump-standing-rock
 
What an amorphous thread. It has no meaning and no sense. But when you start 20 threads a day, you have to some real bad stinkers. This is one.
 
Just noise from the RWNM leaking out. I guess the RW want to be the only consumers of fake news.
 
Legion said:
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Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of the fact-checking site Snopes, said she had seen a spike in the amount and popularity of fake news directed toward liberal audiences.

“Whoever is in power is going to be the target,” said Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org

On the left, there are numerous styles of misinformation that appear to be gaining traction.

In addition to blatantly fabricated stories, there have been increasing concerns about articles featuring deceitful and hyperbolic headlines, viral memes that have a very tenuous connection to the truth and poorly sourced articles that use inaccurate visuals to draw readers.

Other recent fake or misleading stories catering to progressive audiences include a LearnProgress.org piece that said Melania Trump was selling jewelry on the White House website; a viral story about a boy handcuffed at an airport due to Trump’s immigration ban, which was actually from 2015; and a Polticot.com story with a fabricated Mike Pence quote about abortion and rape.

Progressives have also widely shared tweets from a number of accounts claiming to be rogue government officials speaking out against Trump, even though there’s no evidence that they are run by public servants.

Liberal anxieties about Trump have created an appetite for false news, and social psychology dictates that fearful people may be more gullible, said Claire Wardle, research director with First Draft News. Users are especially susceptible when stories and images appear directly in their social feeds, she added. “If one of your peers sends something, you already trust them. So you are much less likely to be critical.”

Outrage at Trump ultimately makes users vulnerable to false stories, said Fil Menczer, a professor at Indiana University. And if progressives do start reading higher quantities of fake news, he said, the country would probably become even more divided. “It means more polarization, more segregation and stronger echo chambers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/06/liberal-fake-news-shift-trump-standing-rock
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Fake news is any news that doesn't praise President Trump. Sound familiar?
 
Legion said:
Have another drink.
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I think your thread is some sort of twisted lie.


According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not-the-problem/

Nov 16, 2016 - Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski had a feeling it was fake. Because, come on now, would a prominent columnist for a reputable ...

Excerpt:

The day after the election, news began swirling around social media that New York Times columnist David Brooks had called for President-elect Donald Trump’s assassination. Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski had a feeling it was fake. Because, come on now, would a prominent columnist for a reputable news outlet really make that kind of comment? Snopes has made its business out of correcting the misunderstood satire, malicious falsehoods, and poorly informed gossip that echoes across the internet — and that business is booming. Traffic jumped 85 percent over the past year to 13.6 million unique visitors in October, according to comScore. The site supports itself through advertising, and in the last three years it has made enough money to quadruple the size of its staff.

Sure enough, a bit of Snopes reporting revealed that Brooks had written a column saying Trump would likely resign or be impeached within a year. A news item published on The Rightists claimed Brooks had then said in an interview for KYRQ Radio New York that Trump should be killed. Snopes found The Rightists doesn’t even pretend to traffic in truth. In the site’s “about” section, it describes itself this way: “This is HYBRID site of news and satire. part [sic] of our stories already happens, part, not yet. NOT all of our stories are true!” What’s more, the story’s facts didn’t add up. For example, the site claimed Brooks had made the comments on a radio station — KYRQ — that didn’t exist.

Verdict: FALSE.

This is the state of truth on the internet in 2016, now that it is as easy for a Macedonian teenager to create a website as it is for The New York Times, and now that the information most likely to find a large audience is that which is most alarming, not most correct. In the wake of the election, the spread of this kind of phony news on Facebook and other social media platforms has come under fire for stoking fears and influencing the election’s outcome. Both Facebook and Google have taken moves to bar fake news sites from their advertising platforms, aiming to cut off the sites’ sources of revenue.


Continued at the link

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not-the-problem/
 
mak2 said:
Just noise from the RWNM leaking out. I guess the RW want to be the only consumers of fake news.
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This is an example of alt-right news..

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But as managing editor of the fact-checking site Snopes, Brooke Binkowski believes Facebook’s perpetuation of phony news is not to blame for our epidemic of misinformation. “It’s not social media that’s the problem,” she says emphatically. “People are looking for somebody to pick on. The alt-rights have been empowered and that’s not going to go away anytime soon. But they also have always been around.”

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not-the-problem/
 
krudzu said:
This is an example of alt-right news..excerpt: But as managing editor of the fact-checking site Snopes, Brooke Binkowski believes Facebook’s perpetuation of phony news is not to blame for our epidemic of misinformation. “It’s not social media that’s the problem,” she says emphatically. “People are looking for somebody to pick on. The alt-rights have been empowered and that’s not going to go away anytime soon. But they also have always been around.”

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not-the-problem/
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I've never heard The Guardian described as alt-right before.

Here she is in The Atlantic.

Brooke Binkowski is the managing editor of Snopes, the English-speaking internet’s most important rumor-debunking site. It is her job to sit around and look at some of the most popular falsehoods on the web all day. Earlier this week, I asked her if she had seen a spike in the amount and popularity of fake news aimed at liberals.

She immediately replied: “Of course yes!”

“There’s a lot of confusion, and people are profiting from the confusion on all sides of the continuum,” she told me. She said she had seen a concerted spike in fake news aimed at liberals since the inauguration.




https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/viva-la-resistance-content/515532/
 
krudzu said:
You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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How so? I quoted an interview with the same woman. She replied in the affirmative when asked if she had seen a spike in the amount and popularity of fake news aimed at liberals.
 
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