Some day there will be randomly generated fake news
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51442831]Some day there will be randomly generated fake news[/QUOTE]
It's not exactly random, but I remember seeing a website that only has fake celebrity death articles dated to the current date.
There are also already at least half a dozen tools for custom fake news story creation online, and many repetitive legitimate articles are automatically generated from some data source and a template.
What you describe will probably be created sooner rather than later.
[QUOTE=sgman91;51442053]I would say that the left is much better at spinning stories and running with totally unverified 'witness' testimonies than making fake news. The whole Michael Brown situation, for example, was, and still is, pushed by a ton of left-wing people as an example of police brutality.
Another example would be the whole movement to paint Brannon as an anti-semite. It's fabricated in every sense of the word.[/QUOTE]
Yet the majority of fake news in the US election was targeted to appeal to trump voters. Maybe you're right that liberals are better at spinning it, but conservatives sure are better at consuming it.
I don't believe that the elections have been swayed by fake news.
I do believe that fake news is an absolutely disgusting trend that is exploding out from under the meager, inapplicable defense of "satire!".
I get duped sometimes. I fucking hate it. I fucking hate not knowing.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;51443906]Yet the majority of fake news in the US election was targeted to appeal to trump voters. Maybe you're right that liberals are better at spinning it, but conservatives sure are better at consuming it.[/QUOTE]
depends on what you think "fake news" is. Washington post was including wikileaks, where in reality im pretty hard pressed to name *any* news organizations that actually research their stories reliably.
The guardian is an example that does their research sometimes, sometimes doesnt, depending on how important they think the story was. Same goes for CNN, MSNBC, FOX, its just a huge clusterfuck of nobody being trustworthy because depending on the day they are willing to pump out complete lies, and have fought in court using that right often enough.
[QUOTE=Elspin;51441378]Speaking as a pretty liberal person I think they must have just been doing a shit job because I see other liberals fall for obvious bullshit all the time. They might not go for shit as outlandish as alex jones and his gay frogs but it's incredible how often I see other liberals sharing obviously made up shit[/QUOTE]
Like the solar roadways bullshit, or the waterseer, or that magical "breaks laws of physics" engine.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;51443906]Yet the majority of fake news in the US election was targeted to appeal to trump voters. Maybe you're right that liberals are better at spinning it, but conservatives sure are better at consuming it.[/QUOTE]
How can you possibly know what the "majority" were? Both sides make and consume a ton of it.
[QUOTE=sgman91;51446168]How can you possibly know what the "majority" were? Both sides make and consume a ton of it.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/[/url]
[url]http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs[/url]
[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/facebook-fake-news-writer-paul-horner-donald-trump-white-in-white-house-because-of-me-a7423046.html[/url]
[quote=guy who made fake news]
Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad].
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Some excerpts from the interview but here is the interesting line.
Q:Is that it? You posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago that you had a lot of ideas for satirizing Clinton and other figures, but that “no joke . . . in doing this for six years, the people who clicked ads the most, like it’s the cure for cancer, is right-wing Republicans.” That makes it sound like you’ve found targeting conservatives is more profitable.
A:Yeah, it is. They don’t fact-check.
So yeah. If this sample is representative of the whole: Conservatives more likely to believe bs.
It was also a bit of a sly jab, saying liberals are better at telling lies and detecting lies, which alludes to them being more intelligent but thats just me being a dick, don't let that detract from the point above. Feel free to drop a pm or something if thats an issue. Aslo note this says nothing about individuals: there are some very smart conservatives, their moral compass is just different. Also it only covers conservatives/foons who supported Trump, so conservatives like Flash Marsh (my favourite conservative) are perfectly safe from my sweeping generalisations.
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