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04-20-2018, 06:58 PM
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#1 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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I don’t know if it’s just me but with the fucking non stop talk about fake news I always think to myself, I don’t know if I’ve ever once been influenced or even believed a piece of fake news or “propaganda” persay.
And really I question as to how much any sort of thing like Facebook ads and placed stories can influence things like elections. Especially in a “civilized” society.
Any opinion I ever had on Trump has virtually never wavered even as I have gained so much more actual information and watched first hand how he acts in a public forum.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m more “internet aware” and have been communicating and and using the internet as we have now since inception so I can spot things better but I’ve never come across an ad or an article I didn’t click on and wasn’t completely skeptical going in only to be proved correct once reading and researching
One thing I believe as well is that, in general, the people who are targeted by the fake news may be also the type to not vote.
News outlets Keep talking about how fake news influenced the election etc and Russian intervention. The Hillary deleted emails etc was news, it was real.
Maybe I’m just baked on 4/20, shit like this is the type of thing that makes me feel like we’re in the Matrix
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04-20-2018, 09:20 PM
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04-20-2018, 11:41 PM
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#3 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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All this talk of fake news and yet how many times have I watched old media: cable news and the like, completely disregard facts, toss soft-ball questions, or misrepresented the truth? I am by no means saying fake news doesn't exist in new media - I grew up with the sarcastic expression: "If it's on the internet, it must be true!" But social media has allowed us to get first hand, eyes on the ground, live information from an situation, before the media has a chance to filter or supress that information. A big part of it is censorship. People are afraid to speak the truth or call it out or hold others accountable for fear of offending, breaking language laws, etc. And people know they can get away with making claims because they know they won't be called out for it. Profit and power drives it all.
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04-21-2018, 11:55 PM
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yea dude, i was fooled into thinking there were hot local singles in my area WAITING to meet me
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04-22-2018, 04:11 AM
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#5 | | I STILL don't get it
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Man I know how you feel. I don't follow any celebrity news or anything but there's just something I can't shake about the Kardashians.
Anyways so Khloe was posting all this crazy shit about Tristan Thompson like talking about how when a women is loved correctly she becomes 10x the woman she was before and I was like aww sweet she finally found love after that cocaine and hooker loving Lamar Odom.
Turns out she was just gassing him up the whole time and he actually is like this giant serial cheater!?!?!?!?! Like he LEFT a baby momma mid pregnancy to be with khloe????? And he's out there getting his dick grabbed by multiple girls on camera?????????
Like damn. He's been bagging hoes while Khloe is at his home in CLEVELAND ..... who MOVED to Cleveland from LA???
Mannnnnn, NBA players really ain't shit.
Anyways, fake news right???
Don't believe everything on Instagram.... it's all bullshit...............like when is Khloe going to find real love???? ........  | |
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04-22-2018, 02:12 PM
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04-22-2018, 02:45 PM
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#7 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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I think people get fooled by fake news because it reinforces what they already believe even though there are countless reports proving them wrong. It's a drug that makes them feel better.
I brought up anti-vaxxers in the other thread as a joke but it's more relevant here. The anti-vaccine movement has been spread but a bunch of paranoid people who cling onto any pseudo-scientific report that supports their argument. They then use hysteria to spread it on social media and if enough people believe it, they've validated their incorrect belief even further. Last time I checked, how many "likes" you get isn't scientific proof that something is true, but people don't get this 
We need to develop better critical thinkers in the next generation otherwise we're doomed.
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04-22-2018, 04:07 PM
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Your vaccine beliefs are those contrived through the same propaganda machine but your critical thinking lacks seeking out the truth for what ever reason that only you can tell us.
Start here if youre curious Google...
site:revscene.net CharlesInCharge vaccines
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04-22-2018, 05:31 PM
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911 and vaccines?
Holy fuck these foos just doubled down on the CIC signal HARD
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04-22-2018, 06:06 PM
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Another thing that I think is legitimate “fake news” are, what are essentially opinion pieces outlets like CBC run.
After Syria gassed a bunch of people all you hear is this uproar about how the global community needs to respond
So shortly after trump and allies bomb the shit out of Syria
Then CBC runs some ducking interview with some Syrian nobody with the headline “Damn you trump!” And it’s this guy going off about how they thought the world was over because bombs were dropping around their homes.
CBC has a liberal agenda they used basically bullshit peices like that to stir the pot
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04-23-2018, 08:13 AM
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this is a goood place to start: 
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04-23-2018, 09:11 AM
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#13 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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That chart is kinda retarded. You can't trust any one news source 100% of the time just like you can't dismiss any source 100% of the time.
They're all biased because people are bias.
The best you can do is read multiple sources on the same story and then try and add common sense.
Takes a lot longer but if you care enough to know anything close to "the truth", you'll try and look at as many angles as possible.
News reporting changed when the producers decided they wanted their reporters to incorporate their opinions. Wasn't like that 30 years ago
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04-23-2018, 09:21 AM
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#14 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer Another thing that I think is legitimate “fake news” are, what are essentially opinion pieces outlets like CBC run.
After Syria gassed a bunch of people all you hear is this uproar about how the global community needs to respond
So shortly after trump and allies bomb the shit out of Syria
Then CBC runs some ducking interview with some Syrian nobody with the headline “Damn you trump!” And it’s this guy going off about how they thought the world was over because bombs were dropping around their homes.
CBC has a liberal agenda they used basically bullshit peices like that to stir the pot | Pretty much all Canadian broadcasting is government funded. From news to tv programs.
You pretty much need to say what the government allows or funding/tax reductions will be reduced or cut.
And being that Canadian government is so far left (our conservative party is nearly on par with most other countries centre left parties), that's about all we get.
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04-23-2018, 09:26 AM
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#15 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by welfare That chart is kinda retarded. You can't trust any one news source 100% of the time just like you can't dismiss any source 100% of the time.
They're all biased because people are bias.
The best you can do is read multiple sources on the same story and then try and add common sense.
Takes a lot longer but if you care enough to know anything close to "the truth", you'll try and look at as many angles as possible.
News reporting changed when the producers decided they wanted their reporters to incorporate their opinions. Wasn't like that 30 years ago | lol no one said that you're supposed to trust a news source 100% of the time, but it comes from info wars you can probably dismiss it 100% of the time
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04-23-2018, 09:31 AM
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#16 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Sid Vicious lol no one said that you're supposed to trust a news source 100% of the time, but it comes from info wars you can probably dismiss it 100% of the time | I don't agree.
And the chart seems to give pretty explicit instructions on what to believe and what not to.
The chart was made by someone (Vanessa ortero) and I'm sure she has her own bias
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04-23-2018, 11:29 AM
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#17 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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The fake news stories I get are the ones from my parents.
I'll get a text saying "guess who died today. Arnold Schwarzenegger". No dad....... he didn't. "he did, I'm reading the article right now on facebook".
I should've never introduced them to social media.
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04-23-2018, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Sid Vicious this is a goood place to start: | Mainstream = Minimum partisan bias 
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04-23-2018, 01:57 PM
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RS is my news. It's never fake!
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04-23-2018, 02:12 PM
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#20 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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