caulrye
caulrye t1_iwa8bgl wrote
Reply to comment by holyoak in People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman
Snopes is an institution with a specific goal. People being interested in Kardashians isn’t comparable.
caulrye t1_iw810mm wrote
Reply to comment by jupitaur9 in People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman
Ideally, and call me crazy, but fact checking should be motivated by facts and not childish farting.
caulrye t1_iw77p9v wrote
Reply to comment by HToTD in People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman
Not saying Trump isn’t disingenuous, he certainly is, but some of the fact checks on him were completely absurd.
He was legitimately fact checked on there being so many hamburgers for a visiting football “you could stack them to the moon”. Fact check: the number of burgers there could not be stacked to the moon.
Or during the months between Election Day and January 6th there was a fact check about whether or not Rudy Giuliani farted during a hearing.
The farting one bugs me more because this was in the middle of serious election denial on a national scale. There were big claims that needed to be checked. But, I guess let’s waste time laughing about a fart because facts are important or something. Idk, just rubbed me the wrong way.
caulrye t1_ixf4lm4 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Sheep flocks operate as a type of ‘collective intelligence’ and elect temporary leaders to guide them while moving. The fluidity of this process is extremely surprising. by nimobo
100s of millions of sheep aren’t moving in a flock together. The scale is very different.