Do you believe fake news?

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Re: Do you believe fake news?

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my5cents wrote: Sep 21st, 2021, 4:41 pm Apparently the answer to the question "Do you believe fake news ?" is "Yes"

If you want the truth read: https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... 4/4278874/

Why do people work so hard to find conspiracy theories ?
Actually, maybe people don't have to work so hard to find conspiracy theories. For instance, it appears that YouTube tried to make it harder, but it seems the ease, ". . . began creeping back up."

"YouTube has nearly halved the number of conspiracy theory videos it recommends"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/0 ... ecommends/
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Re: Do you believe fake news?

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But perhaps here's an alt-answer to your question . . ..
my5cents wrote: Sep 21st, 2021, 4:41 pm Apparently the answer to the question "Do you believe fake news ?" is "Yes"

If you want the truth read: https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... 4/4278874/

Why do people work so hard to find conspiracy theories ?
The conspiracy business: How to make money with fake news

https://www.dw.com/en/the-conspiracy-bu ... a-56660466

All advertising is in some sense a form of falsification. But while once the message probably had an actual thing — a car or a hamburger, perhaps — to sell, today the message itself is often the product.

"The source of value is the watching labor performed by the audience — this, after all, is the activity that produces audience attention, which is the good being sold," Zoe Sherman, a lecturer at Merrimack College, told DW.

The audience's job is to watch and this work is paid in kind, with entertainment rather than in monetary wages, Sherman suggests. "The media generates a surplus by generating revenues through the sale of advertising space that exceed the cost of generating the content that attracted the audience," she adds. Her explanation may also go some way to explaining rising obesity figures in the US.

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(Conclusion)

Social media did not invent conspiracies nor can they be blamed for an individual deciding to believe in a conspiracy rather than facts, Van den Bulck argues. "However, the web and especially social media serve as meeting ground, community building, an 'information' resource and as a megaphone," she notes.

And, moreover, after Twitter banned his accounts in October 2018, Jones' syndicated radio show was picked up by a conservative radio network. Jones' celebrity status also meant that mainstream media continued to fixate on him, its disquiet also generating clicks — and revenues for him and them.

So, when business and politics become so closely entwined — as they did so egregiously during the presidency of Donald Trump — it can hardly come as a surprise that aspects of public discourse became infected by idioms directly borrowed from marketing and entertainment.
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Re: Do you believe fake news?

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my5cents wrote: Sep 21st, 2021, 4:41 pm Apparently the answer to the question "Do you believe fake news ?" is "Yes"

If you want the truth read: https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... 4/4278874/

Why do people work so hard to find conspiracy theories ?
Did you even read the study from the university in fairbanks? I have read the popular mechanics article before.

It is funny because they talk about similar mechanisms of the building, one article goes off into emotional rhetoric and spin before even getting to sparse evidence sprinkled about while the other avoids the political talk and goes deeply into physics and math.

Maybe try to read it..
my5cents wrote: Sep 21st, 2021, 4:41 pm Apparently the answer to the question "Do you believe fake news ?" is "Yes"
Hahahaha you said it not me.. I know what you were trying to elude to lets not be social bullies that is not really constructive.
I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire

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