{"id":36213,"date":"2018-01-03T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36213"},"modified":"2018-01-03T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:33:19","slug":"the-facts-of-life-is-this-good-fake-news-or-bad-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36213","title":{"rendered":"The Facts of Life: Is this good (fake) news or bad (fake) news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/02\/health\/fake-news-conservative-liberal.html?emc=edit_cn_20180103&amp;nl=first-draft&amp;nl_art=&amp;nlid=42227813&amp;ref=headline&amp;te=1&amp;_r=0\">Did you read the New York Times article, &#8220;&#8216;Fake News&#8217;: Wide Reach But Little Impact, Study Suggests&#8221;? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting and\/or disturbing. Because the study found that among adults who consumed news, only a quarter got into fake news items and &#8212; despite our sense that people who licked up fake news were ignoramuses &#8212; those same people also got their real, factual news from mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt (with a bit of my bolding):<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-para-count=\"314\" data-total-count=\"943\"><em>But now the first hard data on fake-news consumption has arrived. Researchers last week posted <a title=\"Full text of working paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/%7Enyhan\/fake-news-2016.pdf\">an analysis<\/a> of the browsing histories of thousands of adults during the run-up to the 2016 election \u2014 a real-time picture of who viewed which fake stories, and what real news those people were seeing at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"1268\"><em>The reach of fake news was wide indeed, the study found, yet also shallow. One in four Americans saw at least one false story, but <strong>even the most eager fake-news readers \u2014 deeply conservative supporters of President Trump \u2014 consumed far more of the real kind, from newspaper and network websites and other digital sources.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"1268\">So. What does this mean? Were people actively brainwashed? Were people taking in fake news and checking its credibility against fact-based news? Or were people ignoring real news and fake news and voting for Trump anyway?<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"1268\">Is it possible that fake news does not have the sort of fearsome influence I, for one, dread?<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"1268\">Or is it possible that people are just plain old dumb on their own?<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"1268\">Hm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you read the New York Times article, &#8220;&#8216;Fake News&#8217;: Wide Reach But Little Impact, Study Suggests&#8221;? It&#8217;s interesting and\/or disturbing. 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