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This is an increasingly serious problem. Social media facilitate the spread of what - to the untrained eye - may look like a genuine news article, but is in reality just false/misleading advertisement.

I have seen it multiple times with regards to trading, selling PPI insurance, gambling... the list goes on. Unscrupulous companies trying to get advantage of gullible people in the same way Nigerian email scams do.


Some media outlet wonder whether fake news spreading may have facilitated Trump's victory as well.



I think some industry regulatory body needs to act on this, or one should be created on purpose.

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This kind of reminds me of this fairly recent las vegas documentary video. Not really a fake media outlet,
but kindof promo for the casinos still trying to recover from 2008


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You have a choice between:
1. mixed bag of fruits (truth, agenda-based info, fake news)
2. controlled flow of information

Now - can you give an example of a country with controlled flow of information (current or historical) you would like to live in?

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You probably saw this new Stanford study.

"In every case and at every level, we were taken aback by students' lack of preparation," the authors wrote.
https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-find-students-have-trouble-judging-credibility-information-online

What is probably also relevant is the difficulty as a non-American to select a source to quote that is acceptable to all. US hyper-partisanship and corporate policy directed opinion as fact is very toxic to any discussion.

I avoided the Fox and the CNN sources not because of their content but because I know one group will not consider the linked article due to the site it is on and vice versa to some degree.

That is certainly not helping American kids especially. Even the adults are struggling to keep their nose above filthy water.

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If we agree that majority of the people are not capable enough to filter information why at the same time do we trust the same people with selecting their next leader?

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All news is fake.

Remember mainstream media told us that Iraq had WMDs and that Hillary had the election in the bag.

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What is news? Mainstream news filters real news to accomplish their agenda, like electing HRC. Most of what they report is fake if you count the real total truth as not fake, but real news.


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Thanks guys.

In this thread I am not really concerned about the 'mainstream' Vs. 'real truth' kind of debate. There's plenty of that around and I agree with all of you about how the media is no longer objective (has it ever been?).

Here I am really targeting the degeneration of 'infomercials' into outright scams like the one depicted, or the many others we can find on the web.


I think the discussion about that should be along the lines of 'should a portion of the population be protected' or 'if you're fool enough to fall for that you deserved it anyway' kind of debate.

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Who would you propose to be the protector?


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Not to completely politicize the thread but.

Misinformation is the mortal enemy of democracy. We are seeing it play out in slow motion in this country (USA). First in politics and now more and more in other areas, it becoming the norm.

My own view is that the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine by Reagan marked the beginning of this spiral into hyper partisanship and fake news/information we are living in now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

We no longer have real news in this country, Fox, MSNBC and the like are nothing more than thinly masked partisan propaganda outlets where every story is molded into an us against them partisan spin. It takes effort to find real news. Its no wonder people are so divided. It was Hermann Goering of the Nazi SS that once said "if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth".

Now with the internet and social media this partisan frenzy people have been whipped into is playing out in fake news and the like. Con artists and crooks and in your face marketers are now jumping in, just another sign of the times.

I kind of doubt much will be done about it because it is not in the interests of politicians.

I guess I did politicize the thread anyway, sorry.....

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