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Probe reveals stunning stats about fake election headlines on Facebook
People who got their election news on Facebook might have been looking at more fake stories than real ones.
BuzzFeed News concluded that the fake clickbait headlines hooked users more often than real headlines, after analyzing the last three months of campaign coverage. The report compared fake news from hoax sites and hyper-partisan blogs to legitimate new articles from 19 major news outlets, including the New York Times, Fox News and even CBS News, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
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Facebook and other social media sites have gained so much popularity that it is quite possible that phony stories posted there might just garner enough believers to sway public opinion. What do you think?
 
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What standard will be used to determine what "fake news" is?
 
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Dittohead not! said:
Probe reveals stunning stats about fake election headlines on Facebook

Facebook and other social media sites have gained so much popularity that it is quite possible that phony stories posted there might just garner enough believers to sway public opinion. What do you think?
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Given how uninformed many people appear to be, it's certainly possible to sway opinion.

One problem I have with the study though is that it compared news on Facebook with news from the likes of the New York Times and CBS. Considering how discredited both of those sources are, how do they tell which ones are fake?
 
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Dittohead not! said:
Probe reveals stunning stats about fake election headlines on Facebook

Facebook and other social media sites have gained so much popularity that it is quite possible that phony stories posted there might just garner enough believers to sway public opinion. What do you think?
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No one trusts those 19 major news outlets anymore, and some of those fake sites were saying exactly what I wanted to hear.... hey, how did I end up in an echo chamber?!?
 
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Dittohead not! said:
Probe reveals stunning stats about fake election headlines on Facebook

Facebook and other social media sites have gained so much popularity that it is quite possible that phony stories posted there might just garner enough believers to sway public opinion. What do you think?
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I can't tell the difference between fake news and CBS/CNN/National Inquirer/US WEEKLY/MSNBC/NBC/NYT anyway. Was it NBC who keeps trotting out the story about Batboy OR maybe that was CBS? What I do know is that NYT came out with a story about how Trump is so horrible to women: but it was so poorly written that most of those women decried to story and called it b.s. Anyway. And then there's the time Don Lemon interviewed a woman who claims that Trump fathered her illegitimate baby: or maybe that was US WEEKLY. I dunno, they all have the same credibility as that dump I took this morning anyway.
 
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shagg said:
No one trusts those 19 major news outlets anymore, and some of those fake sites were saying exactly what I wanted to hear.... hey, how did I end up in an echo chamber?!?
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That's the secret to being believed - tell people what they want to hear.
 
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apdst said:
What standard will be used to determine what "fake news" is?
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Facts vs fiction...
 
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ocean515 said:
Given how uninformed many people appear to be, it's certainly possible to sway opinion.

One problem I have with the study though is that it compared news on Facebook with news from the likes of the New York Times and CBS. Considering how discredited both of those sources are, how do they tell which ones are fake?
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Your second paragraph: the study looked at news on Facebook, not on their websites. It compared like/share/comment levels for legit and bogus sources, and found more activity for bogus stories.
 
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Ikari said:
If you're getting your news solely from Facebook, you deserve it.
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What did the rest of us do to deserve so many misinformed voters?
 
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Dittohead not! said:
What did the rest of us do to deserve so many misinformed voters?
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We live in a land that encourages stupidity and non-thinking.

Fund some proper education and teach critical thinking if you want the Republic to make it. It could be a problem if people are so stupid to be taken in by fake news on such an aggregated level that it affects public opinion. And if that is true, then there is a problem and we have to address it. Can't just point your fingers out of a problem, identify the cause and take steps to fix it. In this case, we have let our population get soft. We now live in a world dominated by trivial social media and reality TV to the point where we have a Reality TV personality as our next President.
 
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Redress said:
Facts vs fiction...
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According to who? The same people who assured us there was no way Mr. Trump could win? The same people who swore that Hillary Clinton didn't break the law? Maybe we should let the government decide, hmm?
 
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apdst said:
What standard will be used to determine what "fake news" is?
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Just read MickeyW's posts.
 
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beefheart said:
Just read MickeyW's posts.
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Boy howdy, the Liberals have divolved this thread into mass personal attacks. Nothing odd about that, but, so far the Left has been wrong about everything.
 
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apdst said:
Boy howdy, the Liberals have divolved this thread into mass personal attacks. Nothing odd about that, but, so far the Left has been wrong about everything.
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If you don't have the ability to figure out...or research what is real or not..then there is nothing I can explain to you...it would waste my time.
 
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beefheart said:
If you don't have the ability to figure out...or research what is real or not..then there is nothing I can explain to you...it would waste my time.
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I'm very able to figure it out. That's not the question.
 
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apdst said:
I'm very able to figure it out. That's not the question.[/QUOTE}


yeah, sure you are...:lamo
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apdst said:
According to who? The same people who assured us there was no way Mr. Trump could win? The same people who swore that Hillary Clinton didn't break the law? Maybe we should let the government decide, hmm?
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Did you know projections are not facts? Did you know Clinton has not been convicted of anything? Did you know that letting the government decide has not been proposed? See how easy that was, fact vs not fact.
 
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Redress said:
Did you know projections are not facts? Did you know Clinton has not been convicted of anything? Did you know that letting the government decide has not been proposed? See how easy that was, fact vs not fact.
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Oh, so if there's no conviction, it didn't happen. Speaking of fake news.
 
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apdst said:
Oh, so if there's no conviction, it didn't happen. Speaking of fake news.
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Do you know how to debate without making up imaginary positions for other people?
 
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apdst said:
Who won the election? Didn't you say Mr. Trump couldn't win?
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What does that have to do with the amount of false news you've posted, example:

apdst said:
He got 375 grand to make the speech.
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Blatant falsity made up by the right wing blogosphere.

Another:

apdst said:
Soros was a Nazi collaborator during WW2, so his anti-Israel bias isn't a shocker.
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Blatant lie, actually originally made up by Ann Coulter.

And lets not forget the main source you use is hotair, which is absolutely worthless.

But you live by your own rules.
 
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Oh noes!

No more fake news?

Whatever will our alt-right brethren do for sources?

On a brighter note, it WILL raise the intelligence level here at Debate Politics.
 
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Jetboogieman said:
What does that have to do with the amount of false news you've posted, example:



Blatant falsity made up by the right wing blogosphere.

Another:



Blatant lie, actually originally made up by Ann Coulter.

And lets not forget the main source you use is hotair, which is absolutely worthless.

But you live by your own rules.
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Everyone should as long as those rules are within the law. You would think a liberal? would understand that. Maybe it is the individuality that scares you.
 
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