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France 24 News has a daily segment on how videos and photos are manipulated to spread lies: Each segment takes a trending image or video and breaks down exactly how it’s been manipulated. For images, you can do a reverse image search to track down the...
by westladem
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on Thu Dec 16, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST
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While we are still trying to process what happened Wednesday, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson is pushing a story that claims Big Tech is dominated by liberal authoritarian-totalitarians who are censoring conservatives and pushing a liberal...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 10:51 AM PST
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I confess I have never seen more than few snippets from the legendary 1950 film Rashomon, but I have seen it referenced a number of times. Now seems like one of those times where it is of increased relevance. To reduce the plot to its essentials, a...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Sep 04, 2020 at 10:54 AM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. The...
by dratler
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on Mon Aug 24, 2020 at 10:49 PM PDT
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As this CNN article points out, there are some limitations to the “anything goes” nature of political adverts content brought on by litigation:
Facebook's advertising policies state "ads must ...
by daddybunny
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on Wed Dec 04, 2019 at 12:00 AM PST
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A recent diary by Gabe Ortiz describes a no-win situation faced by U.S. citizen Maria Soto.
The DJT Administration is denying her a passport, claiming she has not proved citizenship, even though ...
by TrueBlueMajority
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on Thu Aug 29, 2019 at 11:19 AM PDT
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Just saw this Fox Article in my newsfeed and was immediately struck by their report that there is a duality (multiplexity) of reality. This totally explains why Fox is so divorced from reality in its coverage and opinions.
by daddybunny
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on Wed Mar 20, 2019 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Just a short diary.
There’s a very close race for State Senate in Connecticut between Democratic challenger Jorge Cabrera and Republican incumbent George Logan. I was reading an article in the New Haven Register about how both candidates have...
by dcg2
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on Thu Nov 08, 2018 at 09:14 AM PST
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Not that one. This one: My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true. But the facts and evidence tell me it is not. The context of this, as most of us know, was the Iran-Contra scandal. “A few months ago,” said the 40th President on March...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Fri Feb 23, 2018 at 06:35 AM PST
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It’s no secret that we’re fans of Skeptical Science’s The Debunking Handbook: we’ve found it to be an invaluable resource to beat back the latest nonsense from deniers. At its core, the Handbook is a cognitive psychology-based rebuttal to the idea that...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Jan 08, 2018 at 07:02 AM PST
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From coal’s astroturfing online to an artificial intelligence’s both-sides equivocation, when we talked about denial in the age of AI last week, things didn’t look promising. Fortunately, the December issue of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Dec 19, 2017 at 07:04 AM PST
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This is my first diary here, so be gentle with me.
There’s an article on msnbc.com today that talks about something I feel is very important. It’s entitled Trump, his supporters, and the persistence of the "reality-gap." Here is an excerpt:
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by LollyS
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on Fri Dec 09, 2016 at 11:13 AM PST
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To me, the main problem with America right now is the disregard for truth. There is no point in arguing for a better America, in holding Trump and the Republicans (or the Democrats for that matter) to the truth with a strong media, if half the country...
by WatchRight
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on Sat Dec 10, 2016 at 08:16 AM PST
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George Bernard Shaw made the witty claim that, “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of [Western] civilization.” We have read the same sentiment in articles on DailyKos making reference to...
by Al Fondy
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on Mon Nov 28, 2016 at 10:14 AM PST
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To state it baldly, there’s no way mainstream media can objectively cover the Trump administration without self-destructing. If you want to skip a lot of reading, go right to the poll.
If you thought the media’s coverage of the race for the White...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Nov 16, 2016 at 06:42 PM PST
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Ten years ago, Stephen Colbert made his stamp on political discourse. He coined the term "truthiness," and made it Merriam-Webster's word of the year .
By an overwhelming 5 to 1 majority vote, our ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Nov 25, 2016 at 03:20 PM PST
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Trump has raised the bar on at least one thing during his campaign - lying. Since his untruths constantly peg the needle, go beyond 11 even, we’re in uncharted territory and need to come up with some new names for the world-class levels of untruthiness...
by polliwonk
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on Tue Oct 11, 2016 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Virginia’s 10th Congressional District is a potential Red-to-Blue opportunity that is attracting serious external money for a number of reasons, including some polling indicating that the Republican incumbent is at real risk.
Now, before diving...
by A Siegel
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on Thu Oct 06, 2016 at 07:53 AM PDT
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As many here know, I am finishing up my year-long MacArthur-Fellow sabbatical (yay!), for which I crisscrossed the nation in order to fully understand today’s unprecedentedly malignant erosion ...
by Petey2
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on Sun Dec 11, 2016 at 04:07 AM PST
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I have no additional content—just wanted to start another thread since the one on the front page has over 800 comments now.
for those who missed the return of The WØRD tonight:
by TrueBlueMajority
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on Tue Jul 19, 2016 at 02:04 AM PDT
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