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originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: nwtrucker
Once you realize that Fake News is driven by fear of being caught/exposed, it doesn't bother you so much. In fact, you can use the volume and severity of fake news to guage how close investigators are getting to the criminals. A very useful tool.
originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: muzzleflash
You comments are appreciated....really.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: nwtrucker
Question. Do you consider speculation/opinion that turns out to be wrong to be fake news?
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: nwtrucker
Question. Do you consider speculation/opinion that turns out to be wrong to be fake news?
originally posted by: nwtrucker
Up front, I have started threads based on fake news. It was not deliberate. Basically rushing to get the data on ATS is my excuse. When informed that it is fake news, I ask the Mods to close down the thread. They do so.
My vent on this is it seems there are more and more threads deliberately fake news motivated. That, perturbs me right off.
Yet what to do about it? Fact check is often politically motivated as well. Quite a few are out of date or old links being recycled for the purposes of hits garnered. So merely old rather than complete fabrications When presented as new or the OP doesn't check the date of that item being recycled, it becomes a form of fake news, albeit a minor one.
So how do we qualify without oppressing? Perhaps a field that if filled out prior to posting gets a status granted to it by the Mods when posted. Perhaps with the date of the information, number of confirming sites, etc?
Those that choose the normal route receive no status acknowledgement?
I dunno. Thoughts?