CDZ The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This study just bears out my long-held beliefs about social media..and those that depend on it for their information:

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News - The Atlantic - Pocket

The article is long..and well worth reading..a small quote:

"The massive study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.

“It seems to be pretty clear [from our study] that false information outperforms true information,” said Soroush Vosoughi, a data scientist at MIT who has studied fake news since 2013 and who led this study. “And that is not just because of bots. It might have something to do with human nature.”

The study has already prompted alarm from social scientists. “We must redesign our information ecosystem in the 21st century,” write a group of 16 political scientists and legal scholars in an essay also published in Science. They call for a new drive of interdisciplinary research “to reduce the spread of fake news and to address the underlying pathologies it has revealed.”

“How can we create a news ecosystem ... that values and promotes truth?” they ask.

The study suggests that it will not be easy."

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Human nature largely reacts to the hive. After 12 years of public education, it takes a strong will and a certain self-directed research to resist the pull.

In general, if your friends believe something, you will agree, and act as though you believe, whether you actually believe it or not.

You will never have a system that promotes truth until truth requires inarguable facts and not fantasy to support it.

 

[Wuwei]

It seems that yesterday's information age has turned into today's misinformation age. It will be a new cultural dynamic that is here to stay and will change the perception of political and social reality for a long time to come. I have a feeling it will further polarize the right and left, if that is even possible. It is dismaying to see that these two equal segments of population are losing the ability to have a reliable and stable form of communication.

 

[deannalw]

It seems that yesterday's information age has turned into today's misinformation age. It will be a new cultural dynamic that is here to stay and will change the perception of political and social reality for a long time to come. I have a feeling it will further polarize the right and left, if that is even possible. It is dismaying to see that these two equal segments of population are losing the ability to have a reliable and stable form of communication.

They started it!

 

[Dick Foster]

This study just bears out my long-held beliefs about social media..and those that depend on it for their information:

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News - The Atlantic - Pocket

The article is long..and well worth reading..a small quote:

"The massive study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.

“It seems to be pretty clear [from our study] that false information outperforms true information,” said Soroush Vosoughi, a data scientist at MIT who has studied fake news since 2013 and who led this study. “And that is not just because of bots. It might have something to do with human nature.”

The study has already prompted alarm from social scientists. “We must redesign our information ecosystem in the 21st century,” write a group of 16 political scientists and legal scholars in an essay also published in Science. They call for a new drive of interdisciplinary research “to reduce the spread of fake news and to address the underlying pathologies it has revealed.”

“How can we create a news ecosystem ... that values and promotes truth?” they ask.

The study suggests that it will not be easy."

Exactly why I don't have a Twitter account and cancelled my Facebook account. All I ever found there was complete bullshit and a lot of people with shitforbrains.

 

[Oddball]

The Atlantic is fake nooz.

 

[petro]

No such thing as social media.
It is anti-social by its very nature.

Socializing requires face to face contact.

 

[Muhammed]

It says they were exclusively studying Twitter. Well, the vast majority of people have never even used Twitter.

 

[Gdjjr]

 

[Mac1958]

“How can we create a news ecosystem ... that values and promotes truth?” they ask. The study suggests that it will not be easy."

It was already going to be tough enough a few years ago, but I don't know how we get the toothpaste back in the tube at this point.

To me the question is no longer whether we can create and maintain a proper "news ecosystem", but how long a republic can last when so many of its citizens are operating in almost entirely separate and different realities.
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[sartre play]

Even when you know that just one political party cant be wrong or right about everything, when you have seen the huge & smaller mistakes made by each party, it is difficult to really look for the unvarnished truth & so easy to stay in la la land & buy the propaganda that suites your personal preference.

 

[Circe]

It says they were exclusively studying Twitter. Well, the vast majority of people have never even used Twitter.

I have, but I found it led to mobbing people and even when I deplored some behavior (that 49ers player a few years ago who beat up his live-in on her birthday at a pizza party), it wasn't my business, the law had it in hand, and I didn't want to be in mobs, I realized, and quit Twitter.

 

[Circe]

“How can we create a news ecosystem ... that values and promotes truth?” they ask.

The study suggests that it will not be easy."

Some of the problem is simple ignorance twisted by bias. I saw that in action on Neal Cavuto yesterday. He had a girl on who purported to know something about this Wuhan coronavirus, and her bias was to talk it down, to say it isn't important. She said loudly that this disease was only killing one in a thousand who got it. Neal got a funny look on his face but said nothing and her segment finished.

The truth is that the death rate for those who have caught this virus has been closely around 2.2 every day since the first stats were reported two weeks ago. That is 22 deaths per thousand. The woman was citing the death rate of normal influenza in a normal year: which is 1 death per thousand infected persons.

I think this woman and all of us just SAY things, things we don't know but want to be true. And it's the old rule: if you don't know how a word is pronounced, say it LOUD. It works, but it's fake news.

 

[Zorro!]

This study just bears out my long-held beliefs about social media..and those that depend on it for their information:

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News - The Atlantic - Pocket

The article is long..and well worth reading..a small quote:

"The massive study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.

“It seems to be pretty clear [from our study] that false information outperforms true information,” said Soroush Vosoughi, a data scientist at MIT who has studied fake news since 2013 and who led this study. “And that is not just because of bots. It might have something to do with human nature.”

The study has already prompted alarm from social scientists. “We must redesign our information ecosystem in the 21st century,” write a group of 16 political scientists and legal scholars in an essay also published in Science. They call for a new drive of interdisciplinary research “to reduce the spread of fake news and to address the underlying pathologies it has revealed.”

“How can we create a news ecosystem ... that values and promotes truth?” they ask.

The study suggests that it will not be easy."

They'll conclude that "fake news" is what they disagree with and censor that.

EXCITEMENT: Trump drives massive turnout in primaries despite token opposition.

Some of this is a well-deserved “Screw you!” to the media and its 24/7 hostile coverage of Trump and Trump voters.

We'll handle Fake News at the Ballot Box!

 

[flacaltenn]

This study just bears out my long-held beliefs about social media..and those that depend on it for their information:

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News - The Atlantic - Pocket

The article is long..and well worth reading..a small quote:

"The massive study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.

“It seems to be pretty clear [from our study] that false information outperforms true information,” said Soroush Vosoughi, a data scientist at MIT who has studied fake news since 2013 and who led this study. “And that is not just because of bots. It might have something to do with human nature.”

The study has already prompted alarm from social scientists. “We must redesign our information ecosystem in the 21st century,” write a group of 16 political scientists and legal scholars in an essay also published in Science. They call for a new drive of interdisciplinary research “to reduce the spread of fake news and to address the underlying pathologies it has revealed.”

“How can we create a news ecosystem ... that values and promotes truth?” they ask.

The study suggests that it will not be easy."

Except -- Twitter is not a journal or a media outlet.. It's a retarded level chat room...

And The Atlantic really isn't completely innocent of bias and conspiracy either...

 

[HenryBHough]

I'm so damn old I can remember when America has actual NEWSpapers.

 

[bluzman61]

And today's producers of fake news obviously learned from the Nazi propagandists of WW II, that if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes a truth in the minds of those that have been brainwashed. This is evident in many that believe the hideously biased mainstream media of today.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

And today's producers of fake news obviously learned from the Nazi propagandists of WW II, that if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes a truth in the minds of those that have been brainwashed. This is evident in many that believe the hideously biased mainstream media of today.

I would point out that the thrust of this study is not so much MSM as it is distorted perceptions from social Media..such as this site..twitter..Fb..and other unregulated sources of rumor and innuendo.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

FDR was Great

Fascism is "right wing"

Mankind is changing the climate of planet Earth

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And today's producers of fake news obviously learned from the Nazi propagandists of WW II, that if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes a truth in the minds of those that have been brainwashed. This is evident in many that believe the hideously biased mainstream media of today.

I have peer reviewed the above post, we have consensus. The Science is settled!