Is this fact checking going to be like Politifact, which has said that an article or tweet is "mostly false" while saying that the facts it contains are true?
CNN and MSNBC are both masters at using a cherry picked set of facts to support a narrative. Other sources often do the same, just not to the same extent.
Using a very limited set of facts to support your position is called confirmation bias. People introducing additional facts to question the narrative are simply labeled "fake news". "Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so. The people exposing CIA operations were labeled, yet we found through more facts tha
"Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so.
Current conspiracy theories include things like "jet contrails are actually mind control chemtrails", with proof of this often being i.e. pictures of barrels inside of passenger jets, and some contrails being colored in appearance. Of course, if you look deeper you'll find that these have nothing to do with mind control or any other secretive plot, but they use the fact that water barels used to simulate rapid passenger movement on a jumbo jet actually exist, and the fact that contrails can and do appear different colors (surprise, just like regular clouds, owing to the same effect that makes rainbows a thing) somehow means it's actually true that the secret plot really exists.
My favorite ongoing conspiracy theory (because it happens to be about the field I work in) is that IPv6 is a plot by Cisco and the NWO to take over the world. Yes, I'm serious, this is what conspiracy theory people actually think:
As I said in an earlier post, I like how hardcore and bold the NWO is. A teeny fraction of the world's internet users use IPv6, and Cisco and the other globalist cyber false-flagger corporations believe all of the world's sheeple will just ease into the new global cattle pen with no resistance.
Even more current conspiracies are Hillary's emails, the Trump leaks which we recently found were unmasked (possibly illegal) and possibly leaked by Susan Rice. Both of those were called right wing conspiracies. Both of those were found to have a good amount of truth to them, with Comey taking over as prosecutor and claiming he could not prosecute Hilary and the latter still under investigation.
Conspiracy theories and "Fake News" have turned out to be "things people don't want you to know" quite often.
Who decides what is fact? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: Who decides what is fact? (Score:5, Informative)
You can use many truths to draw a false conclusion. Conspiracy theorists do it all the time.
Bidirectional problem (Score:3, Insightful)
CNN and MSNBC are both masters at using a cherry picked set of facts to support a narrative. Other sources often do the same, just not to the same extent.
Using a very limited set of facts to support your position is called confirmation bias. People introducing additional facts to question the narrative are simply labeled "fake news". "Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so. The people exposing CIA operations were labeled, yet we found through more facts tha
Re:Bidirectional problem (Score:2)
"Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so.
Current conspiracy theories include things like "jet contrails are actually mind control chemtrails", with proof of this often being i.e. pictures of barrels inside of passenger jets, and some contrails being colored in appearance. Of course, if you look deeper you'll find that these have nothing to do with mind control or any other secretive plot, but they use the fact that water barels used to simulate rapid passenger movement on a jumbo jet actually exist, and the fact that contrails can and do appear different colors (surprise, just like regular clouds, owing to the same effect that makes rainbows a thing) somehow means it's actually true that the secret plot really exists.
My favorite ongoing conspiracy theory (because it happens to be about the field I work in) is that IPv6 is a plot by Cisco and the NWO to take over the world. Yes, I'm serious, this is what conspiracy theory people actually think:
As I said in an earlier post, I like how hardcore and bold the NWO is. A teeny fraction of the world's internet users use IPv6, and Cisco and the other globalist cyber false-flagger corporations believe all of the world's sheeple will just ease into the new global cattle pen with no resistance.
IPv6 must be resisted.
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/... [prisonplanet.com]
So yeah, the term conspiracy theory is still quite valid.
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Even more current conspiracies are Hillary's emails, the Trump leaks which we recently found were unmasked (possibly illegal) and possibly leaked by Susan Rice. Both of those were called right wing conspiracies. Both of those were found to have a good amount of truth to them, with Comey taking over as prosecutor and claiming he could not prosecute Hilary and the latter still under investigation.
Conspiracy theories and "Fake News" have turned out to be "things people don't want you to know" quite often.