We are Living in the Disinformation Age

[IppoMakanuchi]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/.../?hootPostID=f335366474a7b13beea2001fd1f8cb97

RCN chimed in with a similar statement, "We have not had any reports of the programming issue you mentioned," it said in a tweet to @solikarose.

Many of the news outlets have updated their original report with corrections or near total rewrites.

It's so easy to plant a fake story. And if you're lucky, social media will spread it like wildfire in mere minutes.

Just as long as it's juicy enough and there are people wanting to believe it.

What's worse is even when fake news stories are caught, the correction rarely if ever gets the same level of attention as the fake story itself.

The disinformation lingers on. It can also cycle back into the news and a smaller version of itself takes effect.

 

[Unsurprised Diaz]

I have already adapted well to the post-truth era in journalism -- that's why I come to the War Room on Sherdog for my news now!

 

[Limbo Pete]

Who needs a biased cuck liberal University degree when you have FB feeds and wikipedia?
Every single news outlet is a lie.
The only people we can trust are paranoid bloggers.

 

[Unsurprised Diaz]

f you want the truth -- follow the money -- who benefits will always tell you why certain actions were taken. Most people know this on some level, and can sense when they are being fed bullshit.

 

[TheGreatA]

I would say that we are living in the first age where access to true information was made even possible.

You'd be a damn goof to think that the people during the Cold War era were fed authentic information.

 

[RockstarChris]

But without disinformation and fake news how is the news supposed to attack Donald Trump? Where will we get articles that claim Trump has a small dick because they claim he has small hands? Ohs Nos!

 

[Islam Imamate]

I would say that we are living in the first age where access to true information was made even possible.

This is true but instead of attempting to access the truth most people instantly seek the nearest echo chamber. And companies like Facebook are happy to oblige and build algorithms that create them for you.

 

[Lead]

It's just another step for society. Everyone knows how to read. We now have to try to guide people to know what is and isn't real. Verify, cross reference, etc. It's becoming the new more of being illiterate.

 

[IppoMakanuchi]

It's just another step for society. Everyone knows how to read. We now have to try to guide people to know what is and isn't real. Verify, cross reference, etc. It's becoming the new more of being illiterate.

I don't have much faith that a majority will be able to do this and more importantly that they want to.

 

[jrams]

It's just another step for society. Everyone knows how to read. We now have to try to guide people to know what is and isn't real. Verify, cross reference, etc. It's becoming the new more of being illiterate.

On the plus side, stories like "CNN showing porn" doesn't really have much of an effect on anything. It's funny but I can't see people losing trust in CNN because they believe tranny porn was on it.

 

[RockstarChris]

ad, ad, news, ad, ad, ad, ad, news, news, ad, news ,ad, news, ad news, ad, ad, news, ad

^Yahoo "News"

 

[Greoric]

Yeah, nowadays the noise to signal ratio is particularly high. I suppose that goes with the territory with free information flow.

 

[RockstarChris]

On the plus side, stories like "CNN showing porn" doesn't really have much of an effect on anything. It's funny but I can't see people losing trust in CNN because they believe tranny porn was on it.

Can't lose that which does not exist.

 

[Lead]

I don't have much faith that a majority will be able to do this and more importantly that they want to.

Maybe not at first but I'm optimistic there will be incentives to do so the longer time goes on. There definitely will be a point where it's commonplace to laugh at people who used facebook as their primary way of getting news.

I do agree the problem is people want to read what they already want to believe and the media has provided that for them. You can believe almost anything today and find somewhere online that will continually pad your thinking to that viewpoint and allow you to maintain it. It think that's what has cause oversensitivity with people in public forums. People don't let each other talk. They either talk over them or censor them via multiple ways. This is the characteristic of a person who hasn't been engaged like that before. They don't want to have a civil debate because they fear the lack of knowledge they may truly know and they rather pretend to be right than actually challenge their views and get closer to truth. It isn't healthy but I would think there is going to be a point where something makes it impossible for people to hide like this and forces them to be challenged with opposing viewpoints. You'd think places like Twitter and such would do this but they don't always seem to. It's something with individuals that needs to be encouraged at a young age I guess. To be comfortable with arguing and having your ideas challenged.

 

[lil billy]

Just scrolling through some of the "real news" articles the USA Today put out in the days before November 8th.


"Hillary up 5"

"Trump is unfit to be Presidentt"

"Why Trump almost certainly can't win"

you know the rest.

USA Today, MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the outlets who spent millions being "real" but wrong are going after others who were "fake" but right. ok

 

[Lead]

On the plus side, stories like "CNN showing porn" doesn't really have much of an effect on anything. It's funny but I can't see people losing trust in CNN because they believe tranny porn was on it.

There was a thread awhile ago where on MSNBC, they played a portion of a KFC commercial during a segment about black issues. There was another CNN thing like that also. The medium isn't even being taken seriously by those in control there. There must be workers there "e-suiciding" and jumping ship cause they are sick of it. It's really hard to see where news is heading at this point. Fake news is a valid concern and I know some of the right don't want to acknowledge it right now because Trump's side was the one targeted over the whole thing but there really are sites out here that intentionally make fake news. Not even just political sites either. There are companies that make stage fake events for views online and make it into news. We've seen jokes like this on Nathan for You but it legitimately is happening because it's profitable and people don't care to put the time and resources into verifying it. It is a troubling event and shouldn't just be seen as a partisan issue.

 

[RetiredSlave]

Circle is square, square is circle.

 

[IppoMakanuchi]

Just scrolling through some of the "real news" articles the USA Today put out in the days before November 8th.


"Hillary up 5"

"Trump is unfit to be Presidentt"

"Why Trump almost certainly can't win"

you know the rest.

USA Today, MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the outlets who spent millions being "real" but wrong are going after others who were "fake" but right. ok

Don't act like this is a Left only problem.

Remember that story making the rounds about Trump convincing Ford to keep a Lincoln plant open in Kentucky? And then it turned out that that model car wasn't even made in that Kentucky Ford plant.

 

[Ruprecht]

Just scrolling through some of the "real news" articles the USA Today put out in the days before November 8th.


"Hillary up 5"

"Trump is unfit to be Presidentt"

"Why Trump almost certainly can't win"

you know the rest.

USA Today, MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the outlets who spent millions being "real" but wrong are going after others who were "fake" but right. ok

The fact that you think the difference between fake news and real news is the direction of the political bias says it all unfortunately.

 

[HomerThompson]

Just scrolling through some of the "real news" articles the USA Today put out in the days before November 8th.


"Hillary up 5"

"Trump is unfit to be Presidentt"

"Why Trump almost certainly can't win"

you know the rest.

USA Today, MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the outlets who spent millions being "real" but wrong are going after others who were "fake" but right. ok