fractiousrhubarb
fractiousrhubarb t1_jb03p6p wrote
Reply to comment by CaudallyReinsure396 in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga
People have different world models, but the difference between a delusion and reality is that reality is still there when you stop believing in it.
In this case you could repeat the same experiment (ie, looking at the same set of posts) and fact check them against reality (an example of which could be political voting records) to find out if they contained misinformation, categorize them on whether which party they supported and tabulate the results.
It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a reasonable and justifiable description of reality.
fractiousrhubarb t1_jayq43u wrote
Reply to comment by Larry_Linguini in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga
Source? i.e. can you send a link to the original site this image came from?
btw- it’s worth mentioning that if I really wanted to know a specific thing about oil imports I’d go to wherever the trade data info originally came from, that being as close to reality as I can get.
fractiousrhubarb t1_javzcbo wrote
Reply to comment by SnooPuppers1978 in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga
Probably test the statements against actual reality?
fractiousrhubarb t1_j9yro9l wrote
Reply to comment by Majbo in New cohort study of 3.7 million adults finds that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack or dying from heart disease — associations more pronounced in low socioeconomic status communities by marketrent
It’s the particulates that kill people- that stay isn’t even accounting for global warming
fractiousrhubarb t1_j9xn7o1 wrote
Reply to New cohort study of 3.7 million adults finds that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack or dying from heart disease — associations more pronounced in low socioeconomic status communities by marketrent
... and this is why fossil fuel power kills more people every few hours than nuclear power has in its entire history.
fractiousrhubarb t1_j98ic0w wrote
Reply to comment by ManOfDiscovery in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx
What state do you do high school in?
fractiousrhubarb t1_j8ida9i wrote
Reply to comment by chrisdh79 in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
There’s a proverb for this:
“Look ye not though keyholes, lest ye be vexed”
fractiousrhubarb t1_ixlmdvi wrote
Reply to comment by Nwadamor in I'm Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of 'The Man from the Future', about Hungarian-American mathematical genius John von Neumann. AMA! by simplicissimusrex
Great question, I'd wondered the same.
fractiousrhubarb t1_is275d6 wrote
Reply to comment by fromwayuphigh in Study shows that one-party monopolies dominate politics of American states by Additional-Two-7312
Also FPTP eliminating any chance of a 3rd party becoming electorally effective
fractiousrhubarb t1_jb26rs3 wrote
Reply to comment by bobsafepayment in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga
But you must trust the source of the image you posted, otherwise you’d not have posted it?
The “can’t trust any source” meme is actually designed to work for the right/ corporate interests. Collective actions requires trust. Anything that harms trust empowers the right.
I trust media independent media outlets like Crikey.com.au and MichaelWest.com.au
I don’t trust News Corp because it was founded by an Australian mining magnate (in 1922) specifically to make propaganda.
https://theconversation.com/the-secret-history-of-news-corp-a-media-empire-built-on-spreading-propaganda-116992