In News, What's Fake and What's Real Can Depend on What You Want to Believe - The New Y... - 1 views
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The proliferation of fake and hyperpartisan news that has flooded into Americans’ laptops and living rooms has prompted a national soul-searching, with liberals across the country asking how a nation of millions could be marching to such a suspect drumbeat.
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In interviews, people said they felt more empowered, more attached to their own side and less inclined to listen to the other. Polarization is fun, like cheering a goal for the home team.
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“All of a sudden they got this big push of registered voters,” Mr. Montgomery said, referring to California. “They were all illegals. The same thing in the state of Washington, Los Angeles and Houston, too.”
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That type of insult increases the partisan divide. Paul Indre, a project manager for a hardware goods company in Akron, Ohio, who gets his news from podcasts and television, avoids much of online news. But he understands why people go there in a polarized era.
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This article speaks a lot to confirmation bias we have when reading news. The recent election is a very good example as people are very polarized. There are half of the people support Trump, and half of the people that hates Trump. Although it is a bad thing that people have different opinions, this time is too extreme. Partly is because of the news we perceive everyday. People are always inclined to find their own side and stick with it because everybody need that feeling of belonging. There is no absolute fake or true news. It all depends on whether you believe it or not. --Sissi (12/8/2016)