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Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected? | Technology | The Guardian
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14/11/2016 from
www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories?CMP=fb_newsbot&variant=editors-picks-us
my notes ( ? )
information bubbles didn’t burst on 8 November, but ... mainstream media and polling systems underestimated the power of alt-right news sources and smaller conservative sites that largely rely on Facebook to reach an audience... fake news is not a uniquely Republican problem... What is ... is the validation given to fake news by the now president-elect...
conspiracy theories are amplified by a network of highly partisan media outlets with questionable editorial policies... a cluster of pro-Trump sites founded by teenagers in Veles, Macedonia, motivated only by the advertising dollars they can accrue if enough people click on their links... fake news websites often generate the same news just changing the name to get people on either side to be outraged.”
there’s a lag of around 13 hours between the publication of a false report and the subsequent debunking.
the solution is to create a filter. Before social media, the filter was provided by media companies, who acted as gatekeepers to the news and had staff trained in fact-checking and verifying information. In an age of budget cuts in traditional media, and the rise of clickbait and race-to-the-bottom journalism, standards have slipped
"[Facebook] are in a tough spot, but they are also making a lot of money.”
conspiracy theories are amplified by a network of highly partisan media outlets with questionable editorial policies... a cluster of pro-Trump sites founded by teenagers in Veles, Macedonia, motivated only by the advertising dollars they can accrue if enough people click on their links... fake news websites often generate the same news just changing the name to get people on either side to be outraged.”
there’s a lag of around 13 hours between the publication of a false report and the subsequent debunking.
the solution is to create a filter. Before social media, the filter was provided by media companies, who acted as gatekeepers to the news and had staff trained in fact-checking and verifying information. In an age of budget cuts in traditional media, and the rise of clickbait and race-to-the-bottom journalism, standards have slipped
"[Facebook] are in a tough spot, but they are also making a lot of money.”
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