'Fake news' isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is

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A perfect example is the OSU nut who rammed into people with his car and then attacked them with a knife, they immediately claimed lack of gun control was the cause. Totally ignoring he was also a Somali Muslim. Even today, they are doing their best to deny an Islamic reasoning behind the attack.

Thank goodness the university security officer quickly sent him to meet his adoring virgins.

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Interesting that YOU wouldn't think that fake news is a problem.
especially since he was friends with a paid shill on the government payroll who was sent here to troll threads about government corruption,a poster named gomer pyle ollie.lol
 
Uncle Ferd reads the fake newspaper...

The real problem behind fake news
November 30, 2016 - To the list of historic firsts that Donald Trump seems to rack up daily, we can now add this: He is the first candidate in the annals of American politics to allege massive fraud in an election he actually won.
Trump took to Twitter last weekend to declare that he would have won not just the presidency but also the popular vote had it not been for 3 million people — presumably undocumented immigrants — who came out to illegally vote against him. Because, you know, nothing attracts undocumented immigrants more than a polling place crawling with Trump supporters and local sheriffs. In what’s now becoming just another day in my industry, most major news outlets felt compelled to note in their headlines that Trump had made this allegation with zero evidence. Instead, he seems to have been citing yet another fabricated story that started on dubious news sites and quickly ricocheted into social media.

The emergence of “fake news” is a searing hot topic these days, as you’ve probably heard — a new, truth-free media to go with our new, truth-free politics. The Washington Post reports that a lot of these phony stories, some of which probably influenced the election in at least a tangential way, originate with Russian “bots” programmed to confuse American readers. (Payback, I guess, for all those years when Voice of America did the same thing.) Under enormous pressure, Facebook and Google have now promised to do a better job of curating the content that populates their sites. Which is all very comforting, if you really want software engineers assuming the role of civic arbiter that has traditionally fallen to journalists. I don’t.

And the problem with cracking down on social media sites is that it’s a little like the war on drugs. You can try to stamp out the supply of garbage news, but the Web is a vast place, and as long as someone can make money off misinformation, it will always find a crack through which to seep. No, the long-term solution here is about stemming the demand. The answer doesn’t lie in hectoring tech companies into policing content, but rather in teaching our kids how to consume it.

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The People's Primer!

Speaking of fake news, anyone deeply think about why Saturday Night Live (SNL) features its regular 'news-parody' skit, "Weekend Update" (hosted by comedians such as Dennis Miller and Kevin Nealon among others)?

There must be some connection between social criticism and populism theater.

For example, who do you think has made more socially-symbolic films --- Al Pacino (e.g., City Hall, The Godfather) or Robert Redford (e.g., Spy Game, All the President's Men)?

What I need right now is a cannoli...



Weekend Update (SNL)



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