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on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:17AM
from the truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth dept.
from the truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth dept.
Despite the best efforts of Mark Zuckerberg to downplay Facebook's role in the election of Donald Trump, the scrutiny of how fake news is spread on the platform has intensified.
Buzzfeed News is reporting that "more than dozens" of Facebook employees have created an unofficial task force dedicated to addressing the issue.
Buzzfeed quoted one member of that task force, who did not want to be named over fears for their job.
"[Mark Zuckerberg] knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season," the source said.
The election shook out the way it did because there were ways around the narrative the media was pushing?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:02AM
Yours is the false equivalency of journalistic objectivity at work. The two candidates did not say equal numbers of check-worthy things.
Was that simply because Trump is bat-shit insane, or that the media used kid gloves and often times failed to report wikileaks revelations about Clinton?
I mean if we are going to discuss journalistic objectivity...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:19PM
Google: "wikileaks clinton"
Result: 46 million hits.
I think it was covered a bit...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:23PM
OOh, let's get even more specific, using The Donald's favorite whipping boy the New York Times:
Google: "site:nytimes.com wikileaks clinton"
Result: 42,200 results.
The New York Times covered the story over fourty thousand times!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:55PM
Which is good and all, but can you do a comparison against some Trump keywords? How about sentiment analysis next? Nah, lets just look at keywords which to try to prove your point.