{"id":13832,"date":"2020-08-09T00:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13832"},"modified":"2020-08-09T00:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:48:22","slug":"2020-08-09-fake-news-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13832","title":{"rendered":"2020-08-09 Fake News, Fact Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From wikipedia article<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media_bias_in_the_United_States\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media_bias_in_the_United_States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:rgb(32,33,34); font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,\" segoeuirobotolatohelveticaarialsans-serif=\"segoeuirobotolatohelveticaarialsans-serif\" _16px=\"font-size:_16px\" normal=\"white-space:normal\" _400=\"font-weight:_400\" _2text-indent0px=\"orphans:_2text-indent0px\" none=\"float:none\" _2=\"widows:_2\" _0px=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_0px\" rgb255255255=\"background-color:rgb255255255\" initial=\"text-decoration-color:initial\" inlineimportant=\"display:inlineimportant\" left=\"text-align:left\">An Oxford study has shown that deliberate use of fake news in the U.S. is primarily associated with the hard right.<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-139\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \" segoe=\"segoe\" ui=\"ui\" roboto=\"roboto\" lato=\"lato\" helvetica=\"helvetica\" arial=\"arial\" sans-serif=\"sans-serif\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" _0.75em=\"_0.75em\" super=\"super\" none=\"none\" rgb255=\"rgb255\" _255=\"_255\" isolate=\"isolate\" nowrap rgb32=\"rgb32\" _33=\"_33\" _34=\"_34\" normal=\"normal\" _2=\"_2\" start=\"start\" _0px=\"_0px\" initial=\"initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media_bias_in_the_United_States#cite_note-139\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; color: rgb(107, 75, 161); text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\">[139]<\/a><\/sup><span style=\"color:rgb(32,33,34); font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,\" segoeuirobotolatohelveticaarialsans-serif=\"segoeuirobotolatohelveticaarialsans-serif\" _16px=\"font-size:_16px\" normal=\"white-space:normal\" _400=\"font-weight:_400\" _2text-indent0px=\"orphans:_2text-indent0px\" none=\"float:none\" _2=\"widows:_2\" _0px=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_0px\" rgb255255255=\"background-color:rgb255255255\" initial=\"text-decoration-color:initial\" inlineimportant=\"display:inlineimportant\" left=\"text-align:left\"><span> <\/span>According to a 2019 study of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 election season, 80% of &#8220;all content from suspect sources was shared by less than 1 percent of the human tweeters sampled&#8230; Those users were disproportionately politically conservative, older and more highly engaged with political news&#8221;.<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Network_Propaganda_96-4\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \" segoe=\"segoe\" ui=\"ui\" roboto=\"roboto\" lato=\"lato\" helvetica=\"helvetica\" arial=\"arial\" sans-serif=\"sans-serif\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" _0.75em=\"_0.75em\" super=\"super\" none=\"none\" rgb255=\"rgb255\" _255=\"_255\" isolate=\"isolate\" nowrap rgb32=\"rgb32\" _33=\"_33\" _34=\"_34\" normal=\"normal\" _2=\"_2\" start=\"start\" _0px=\"_0px\" initial=\"initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media_bias_in_the_United_States#cite_note-Network_Propaganda-96\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; color: rgb(107, 75, 161); text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\">[96][140]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From wikipedia article https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media_bias_in_the_United_States &lt;&lt; An Oxford study has shown that deliberate use of fake news in the U.S. is primarily associated with the hard right.[139] According to a 2019 study of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 election season, 80% of &#8220;all content from suspect sources was shared by less than 1 percent<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13832\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13833,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions\/13833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}