John Herrman, writing in the New York Times, writes a rather meandering article about fake news — still worth reading — that basically makes the claim that the “fake news” genie is out of the bottle and now all news will be subject to being tainted by this moniker. As Will Oremus, writing in Slate […]
Buzzfeed conducted a survey and found that Americans believe 75% of the fake news they read. THAT’S FREAKIN’ BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody should read this article by Craig Silverman and Jeremy Singer-Vine of Buzzfeed. ============ One issue I have with the article is the implications hinted at based on the data that showed Trump voters were […]
Will Oremus, Slate’s Senior Technology editor, points out that some “fake news” is fake news, some “fake news” is something else entirely. His is a good reminder. I wish, however, that there was a list of different types of misinformation. Oremus also points out that while fake news was originally a rallying cry of the […]
Interesting article in the Washington Post by Christopher Ingraham. It points out that fake-news websites tend to target conservatives and there is some relatively new research — new enough that we should be somewhat skeptical of it — that conservatives may process information differently thant liberals. Here’s some quotes from the article: Numerous reports have highlighted […]
A Power Bomb of an Article, showing another way that our American Democracy is being undercut with dishonesty.
Eric Umansky, editor at ProPublica, interviews Brendan Nyham on his worries that Trump is breaking the informal norms of democratic process — in a post entitled: How Journalists Need to Go Beyond Fact Checking Trump. Brendan Nyham: “The story here is that the president-elect of the United States has yet again made a baseless claim. […]
I am thrilled to announce that Truth For Democracy has been officially sanctioned as a nonprofit organization. Our formal name is Truth For Democracy Nonprofit Incorporated. Here is an official certificate-of-existence provided on December 2, 2016. I am still waiting on the federal government’s issuing of an EIN (Employer Identification Number), which will enable us […]
Nice article, warns us about the danger that dishonesty make damage our democracy. Says the following, among other things: The larger portion of the blame lies with the citizens of the nation that Donald Trump insists only he can make great again. Fake news thrives because there is a lazy, incurious, self-satisfied public that wants […]
Andrew Prokoff, writing on Vox, examined Facebook’s latest thinking on their fake news problem. Here are some quotes from the article: “For so long, we had resisted having standards about whether something’s newsworthy because we did not consider ourselves a service that was predominantly for the distribution of news,” explained Facebook’s Elliot Schrage. “And that […]
Writing for the New York Daily News, Harry Siegel writes: As I write this, the New York Times has run 21 headlines in the 23 days since the election about “fake news,” most of them suggesting that it helped swing the election. That’s a lot of news stories, and they are not the only ones. […]