Curated Resource ( ? )
If a Story Is Viral, Truth May Be Taking a Beating
Curated:
12/12/2013 from
www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/business/media/if-a-story-is-viral-truth-may-be-taking-a-beating.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&
my notes ( ? )
Today's online news environment is ideal for spreading bullshit. As someone like HuffPo's Washington bureau chief puts it:
“If you throw something up without fact-checking it, and you’re the first one to put it up, and you get millions and millions of views, and later it’s proved false, you still got those views. That’s a problem. The incentives are all wrong.”
Basically the entire world is heading fullspeed towards UK-style tabloidism. How wonderful. At least, for people who like spreading manure, like Eurosceptics, IMRBs ("I'm not racist but") and viewers of Fox News.
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