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Javier E

Musk Peddles Fake News on Immigration and the Media Exaggerates Biden's Decline - 0 views

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shared by Javier E on 28 Feb 24 - No Cached
  • There’s little indication that Biden’s remarks on this occasion—which were lucid, thoughtful, and, as Yglesias noted, cogent—or that any of the countless hours of footage from this past year alone of Biden being oratorically and rhetorically compelling, have meaningfully factored into the media’s appraisal of Biden’s cognitive state
  • Instead, the media has run headlong toward a narrative constructed by the very people politically incentivized to paint Biden in as unflattering a light as possible. When news organizations uncritically accept, rather than journalistically evaluate, the assumption that Biden is severely cognitively compromised in the first place, they effectively grant the right-wing influencers who spend their days curating Biden gaffe supercuts the opportunity to set the terms of the debate
  • Why does the media take at face value that the viral posts showcasing Biden’s gaffes and slip-ups are truly representative of his current state? 
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  • Because right-wing commentators aren’t the only ones who think Biden’s mind is basically gone—lots of voters think so too
  • Of course, a major reason why the public thinks this is because the entirety of the right-wing information superstructure is devoted, on a daily basis, to depicting Biden as severely cognitively compromised
  • By contrast, most of the news sources the right sees as hyperpartisan Biden spin machines actually strain at being fair-minded and objective, which disinclines them toward producing any sort of muscular pushback against the right’s relentless mischaracterizations.
  • Since mainstream media venues by and large epistemically rely on the views of the masses to supply journalists with their coverage frames, news operations end up treating popular concerns about Biden’s age as a kind of sacrosanct window into reality rather than as a hype cycle perpetually fed into the ambient collective consciousness by anti-Biden voices intending to sink his reelection chances.
  • even if we grant every single concern that Klein and others have voiced, it is indisputably true that Joe Biden remains an intellectual giant next to Donald Trump
Javier E

Obama, With Angela Merkel in Berlin, Assails Spread of Fake News - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Javier E on 18 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • “Because in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television,” Mr. Obama said. “If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made,
  • Bogus news stories appearing online and on social media appear to have had a greater reach in the final months of the campaign than articles by authoritative, mainstream news outlets, according to an analysis of Facebook activity by BuzzFeed
  • In the three months before Election Day, the most popular stories produced by hoax sites and “hyperpartisan blogs” generated more engagement — likes, shares and comments — on Facebook than the most popular articles by major news websites, the analysis found.
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  • Among the 20 most popular fake election stories identified by BuzzFeed, all but three favored Mr. Trump or denigrated Hillary Clinton.
  • “If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, and particularly in an age of social media when so many people are getting their information in sound bites and off their phones, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”
sissij

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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shared by sissij on 09 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The wider problem is fake news has the effect of getting people not to believe real things.
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  • “It depends on who’s defining it. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
  • “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.”
  • 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.
  • sissij on 09 Dec 16
     
    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)
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