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I Don’T Like It, Therefore It’S ‘Fake News’
According to a recent Gallop poll in the US, 42% of Republicans believe accurate, but negative, stories qualify as ‘fake news’
The figure for Democrats is 17%.
17% is bad enough, but four in ten Republicans?
Is this something that should be blamed on the news media, or social media, PR companies or news consumers?
The figure for Democrats is 17%.
17% is bad enough, but four in ten Republicans?
Is this something that should be blamed on the news media, or social media, PR companies or news consumers?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Republican voters are certainly a strange lot. Over 48% of voters in Alabama (which presumably means nearly all of Republican voters in Alabama) gave their backing to Roy Moore in the race for the Senate. They appear to be living in the Dark Ages!
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No YMB. I stand by everything that I have said.
But I suggest that you read SP's post again.
These people that don't acknowledge the news to be truthful, when it is accurate, are stupid, other wise they wouldn't have this daft belief would they ? They are incapable of sorting the wheat out from the chaff.
They will continue to support Trump, no matter what evidence is produced, even when that evidence is the truth.
But I suggest that you read SP's post again.
These people that don't acknowledge the news to be truthful, when it is accurate, are stupid, other wise they wouldn't have this daft belief would they ? They are incapable of sorting the wheat out from the chaff.
They will continue to support Trump, no matter what evidence is produced, even when that evidence is the truth.
Surely a major factor must be Trump trumpeting "Fake News!" at every story he doesn't like.
That is the pernicious thing about the phenomenon of real fake news (so to speak): it not only misinforms, but it also says "actually, you can't trust any news source"
So you get people glibly dismissing anything they don't agree with as not just inaccurate but deliberately made up
That is the pernicious thing about the phenomenon of real fake news (so to speak): it not only misinforms, but it also says "actually, you can't trust any news source"
So you get people glibly dismissing anything they don't agree with as not just inaccurate but deliberately made up
Mickey/Ick it is impossible to tell what is fake and what isnt. The MSM have bee on Trumps back daily often with multiple stories which have little if any truth in them.
It is classic cry Wolf and impossible for any lay person to distinguish truth from fiction with any certainty. I am pretty sure there will be things said which are truthful about Trump but now they get buried.
It is classic cry Wolf and impossible for any lay person to distinguish truth from fiction with any certainty. I am pretty sure there will be things said which are truthful about Trump but now they get buried.
It is difficult to sort out fake news from fact if there are a lot of fake news stories about and you have not the means or desire to check the source.
But I absolutely reject the idea that it is impossible to tell the difference. There have always been inaccurate news stories, but that is not what "fake news" is: fake news is stuff that has been deliberately made up.
I challenge you to come up with a single story about Trump that has been deliberately made up (as opposed to something inaccurate)
As I said before, that is one of the worst effects of this stuff: we stop trusting anything
But I absolutely reject the idea that it is impossible to tell the difference. There have always been inaccurate news stories, but that is not what "fake news" is: fake news is stuff that has been deliberately made up.
I challenge you to come up with a single story about Trump that has been deliberately made up (as opposed to something inaccurate)
As I said before, that is one of the worst effects of this stuff: we stop trusting anything
Fake news is stories like the one about the restaurant somewhere in the US which was allegedly the scene of the Clinton foundation murdering children which actually prompted one person to head there with a gun intent on murder
Or Trump being endorsed by the pope
Or Russian state tv's continued self-contradictory documentaries about the MH-17 shooting down.
Or just about anything that ever appeared in the Sunday Sport :-)
Or Trump being endorsed by the pope
Or Russian state tv's continued self-contradictory documentaries about the MH-17 shooting down.
Or just about anything that ever appeared in the Sunday Sport :-)
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