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A study shows that misinformation spreads faster and farther than correct information:
An analysis of news stories tweeted by three million people between 2006 and 2017 shows that fake news spreads significantly more than the truth on social media.
[...] Truthful tweets took six times as long as fake ones to spread across Twitter to 1,500 people – in large part because falsehoods in the sample were 70 per cent more likely to be retweeted than the truth, even after accounting for account age, activity level and their number of followers. The most viral fake news was political in nature.
The study was carried out by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Social Machines.
From The Inquirer.net : False stories travel way faster than the truth, says study
and New Scientist : Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter
and The Economist : On Twitter, falsehood spreads faster than truth.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:10PM (20 children)
It's very easy (and profitable) to spread bullshit.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:23PM
In 15 years, all the professional fourth estate has done is disseminating innuendo, omissions and opinion as facts.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:19PM (14 children)
No it is because "left leaning" stuff is more inclusive and generally doesn't promote division between humanity. "Right leaning" stuff is generally xenophobic and fearful. Just like our natural fight or flight response, conservative values are very important and in reality we need a mix of both viewpoints for a successful society. Lean too far left and you'll have the system eat itself, lean too far right and you'll have humanity eat itself.
Examples
Left: Pure equality communism that destroys productive creation and inhibits creativity.
Right: Xenophobic tribalism that inhibits sharing and violates freedoms to the point of genocide.
But hey, don't let me stop your conspiracy train that takes extreme examples and applies them to everything. I guess I should be calling you literally Hitler?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @10:09PM (13 children)
Hitler called himself a socialist. Specifically the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Translated to National Socialist German Workers' Party. Shortened by its enemy's to Nazi. You have fallen into a trap of not verifying your sources and somehow magically 'conservative' = 'nazi'. Last I looked socialism is clearly clammed by the left. In fact Antifa is a communist construct. To fight Nazis. Not because Nazis were 'evil' (they were) but because they were not extreme enough in overthrowing 'the man'.
Your view is almost a perfect example of 'fake news' travels far. Good job on your example.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 10 2018, @11:08PM (11 children)
And North Korea is called the Democratic Peoples' Republic. You can call anything anything you want; doesn't make it so.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:01AM (10 children)
Oh STFU. You have the Internet, use a search engine to find the official platform of the Nazi Party. Drop the jew hating parts, for rather obvious reasons, and then explain how Bernie Sanders (who is not a member of the Democratic Party because he is an avowed Socialist) wouldn't either embrace every remaining plank or criticize it for being RIGHT of our current political times because past Democrats already went far farther toward the Sunny Uplands of History than Hitler felt safe in proposing in his time. Quote a plank and explain how Bernie (or any other brand name Progressive) rejects it as being too far Left.
Put up or shut yer damned hole. That goes for everybody here who insist on equating anything the left doesn't like with Nazis. WWII was a fight between National Socialists (aka Fascists) and International Socialists. And yes, just to troll extra hard, the terms International Socialism, International Jewry, Globalists, International Community, Transnationalists, etc. are close enough to almost use them interchangeably. But not quite, there are important differences. However it does explain the anti-Jew planks in Hitler's platform. Saying WWI had nothing to do with the Jews is like the people who say the American War for Southern Independence had nothing to do with slavery. There was more to it in both cases but denying a major friction point is also either willful ignorance or an agenda.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:39AM (1 child)
Thank goodness! We can finally admit that slavery was an important factor in the War for Southern Independence!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:56AM
Shit, if Lincoln had known what the South was going to turn into he'd probably never have kept the in the Union. I know, hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but personally I'd have treated the South like the hostile foreign power it so desperately wished to be, razed it to the ground, and seized it as conquered territory.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:40AM (3 children)
Have you really done the "dropping the jew hating" part? Id so, post the list here, otherwise you start with an unsubstantiated claim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:05AM (2 children)
If you weren't a retard you could figure it out for yourself. It wasn't subtle. "Hence no Jew can be a countryman." is many things, subtle is not numbered among them. But points 4, 5 and 6 are generally accepted as primarily directed at the Jews. 23 and 24 aimed broader than just Jews but certainly was motivated by the same impulse to remove the encroaching Soviet / Jewish influence.
But since I already pulled the list, I'll specifically issue the challenge to argue against the assertion that Progs are fully on board or already generally to the Left of part one of point 7, and points 9-18, 20-25. Points 1-3 are just butthurt over the Treaty of Versailles and unimportant outside their point in time and 19 is a similar historical oddity. While anti-military feelings dominate the Left, they might not want the specific solution in 22, hard to figure out what the Left wants on that issue currently. They loved the military when Obama was droning people but seem to have flipped again with Trump's election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:59AM (1 child)
Jmorris is unhinging! Must be trumps huuuge win in the polls. The real polls, no the fake ones!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @10:22AM
He's just pining for the
Reichfiords! And all shagged out. Wonderful plummage!(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:12AM
Now spin in a little vortex while spraying slobber all over and you'll have Taz [wikipedia.org] down pat.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday March 11 2018, @07:54AM (2 children)
Suggested reading: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11655230/Hitler-was-not-a-socialist-even-if-he-did-stash-champagne.html [telegraph.co.uk]
And yeah, while Hitler misappropriated the word "socialist" to appeal to a broad range of people, he wasn't a socialist by any honest measure.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:40AM
And if you think people like J-Mo are using any honest measures, well, there's your issue. He's one of the few people on this board whom I genuinely think is a mass-shooting risk, or would be if he could get his fat cheetos-encrusted ass out of the armchair in mom's basement.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @09:07AM
It's always "not real socialism" or "not real communism" when the results get ugly.
Both on reddit and in person, people have been having fun with Antifa and other extreme leftist/liberal/democrat types. What is done is to get Antifa agreeing with what are essentially Hitler quotes, obviously translated to English. Antifa eats it up. They LOVE LOVE LOVE the Hitler message. It really resonates with them.
At the end, you reveal the source to them or post a video to youtube. It's great fun when they realize that they were essentially supporting Hitler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:56AM
It is always amusing to see trolls so triggered they can't even muster up some basic reading comprehension. I called for a reasonable approach then made a joke about extreme positions by referencing the common "Hitler" phrase that some liberals throw around. Good job missing the joke.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by meustrus on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:21AM (1 child)
The fuck are you talking about? Pop culture is all about he-said-she-said, mainly about sex scandals. When it's not about sex, it's about the largesse of the nouvou riche. Even if the paparazzi were liberal, they'd never get nearly as much traction on a story about i.e. celebrity-is-homophobic than a story about celebrity-broke-someone's-heart.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by ants_in_pants on Sunday March 11 2018, @03:12AM
The thing is that a lot of stuff that would previously be relegated to intelligentsia is making its way somewhat into the mainstream these days. So people are of course up in arms that the intelligentsia are so left-leaning, when in fact if anything they're less so than at any other point in the past 300 years.
-Love, ants_in_pants
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:08AM (1 child)
Because people see rising prices and not rising wages while the "captains of industry" take brief breaks from their golfing to talk about how people need to work harder?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:16AM
"Too big to fail" bailouts are a governmental policy.