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Researchers Develop Online Game That Teaches Players How To Spread Misinformation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Cambridge researchers have built an online game, simply titled Bad News, in which players compete to become "a disinformation and fake news tycoon." By shedding light on the shady practices, they hope the game will "vaccinate" the public, and make people immune to the spread of untruths. Players of the fake news game must amass virtual Twitter followers by distorting the truth, planting falsehoods, dividing the united, and deflecting attention when rumbled. All the while, they must maintain credibility in the eyes of their audience. The game distills the art of undermining the truth into six key strategies. Once a player has demonstrated a knack for each, they are rewarded with a badge. In one round, players can opt to impersonate the president of the United States and fire off a tweet from a fake account. It declares war on North Korea complete with a #KimJongDone hashtag. At every step, players are asked if they are happy with their actions or feel, perhaps, the twinge of shame, an emotion that leads to the swift reminder that "if you want to become a master of disinformation, you've got to lose the goody two-shoes attitude." The work is due to be published in the Journal of Risk Research.
...aren't the ones who need "vaccination".
"If you're not reading news, you're uninformed.
If you're reading news, you're misinformed."
I assume the message is to make your own determinations from aggregate data, to not simply parrot like a mental human centipede.
Ironically, a Retweet does exactly that.
This is exactly the attitude the assholes are looking to create. No, you don't have to discount everything you haven't seen with your own eyes.
Actual fake news, the bad shit, was the "Obama is a secret Muslim", "Clinton pedophile ring," horse shit that got spread around by conspiracy nuts.
Trump took the description and made it his catchphrase to discredit stories he doesn't like.
Just don't share conspiracy theories, for God's sake never watch Fox News, understand that MSNBC and the Daily Show will show you the perspective that fits their story, and otherwise just watch with a critical eye. It's not hard. It's not any different than what you've always had to do.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
Horner was known for writing false stories and disseminating internet hoaxes that often went viral on Facebook and hoodwinked thousands of people.
They included a story falsely claiming former President Obama was gay and a radical Muslim, and another saying protesters were being paid thousands of dollars to demonstrate at Donald Trump's campaign rallies.
Horner took on greater prominence during the presidential election when false stories were widely shared on social media during the race between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
In an interview with The Washington Post in 2016, Horner said he thought Trump won the White House because of him. Horner said Trump's supporters didn't fact-check his stories before posting them. ...
The fake news mill over seas said the same thing. Liberals fact checked stories so the stories couldn't get traction. So after a short time, all their stories were targeted at convervatives.
Like Mulder, conservatives wanted to believe.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
That poll has 14% of Republicans trusting the media
That's a higher percentage of journalists that were Republicans in 2014
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
What's happened is that the media have essentially given up on the pretense that they're objectively report on the news and instead decide to report on stories that fit their narrative as emotionally as possible and ignore ones that don't.
So after a mass shooting CNN will get a bunch of kids on to demand gun control. They don't do the analogous think when an illegal immigrant killed Kathryn Steinle. Or when a Omar Mateen shoot up a gay bar. It's not like they get crying, photogenic kiddies on to demand a travel ban, border wall or an end to sanctuary cities.
And the thing is once you know the double standard it's impossible to take CNN seriously as a news source anymore. That's not to say everything they say is fake, rather there are a lot of true things they will never say. And a lot of the things they do say are are too heavy on emotion and too light on facts.
For example the left wing Washington Post fact checked Marco Rubio's claim that gun control would not have stopped mass shootings and found it was true
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Will CNN present that as a counter point to the kids yelling "Hey, hey NRA! How many kids have you killed today?" ( The answer obviously being "Zero", unlike Planned Parenthood). Yeah, don't hold your breath. The Democrats know this of course which is why they didn't even try to implement gun control when they last had control of all three branches of government.
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No, it is a reaction to the mainstream media outright lying. They've been caught so many times it's ridiculous, and here you are parroting the line that it doesn't exist. Glenn Thrush, the former senior staff writer at Politico was exposed by WikiLeaks as he ran an article by Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta prior to publishing. What was his punishment? He was hired by The New York Times as a political correspondent.
Calling fake news fake news is fake news, according to the fake news. Journalists spread fake news all the time, whenever it satisfies their emotional needs and validates their pre-existing political biases. It's very menacing if journalists with the loudest claim to authoritative credibility are abusing their positions constantly to entrench falsehoods in the public's mind. Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That Are False.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
But it is not better to think every person is a conspirator.
There was a study that showed that Americans trust each other a lot more than Russians trust each other and that impedes Russian growth.
The study is the basis for the Russian strategy now -- cripple the US by making them distrust each other as much as Russians do.
It's a really good strategy. It'll work, and there's nothing we can do about it.
The Russians have the help of the 1%, and the left, which are both always pushing for diversity and mass immigration. Both lower social cohesion as shown even by left leaning sociologists. Want to fragment America, just let enough Spanish speakers who won't assimilate and you'll get your wish.
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