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I think that fake news highlights the human tendency to only believe in "facts" that closely aligns with their worldview. I've even corrected people on factually inaccurate statements like "Obama wants to introduce death panels for seniors" only to be met with "well it's the concept that concerns me!". I tend to blame conservative media for making it easy to not apply critical thinking due to claims of "liberal bias". Facts are irrelevant in the face of media distrust.
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The other thing that comes to mind is the echo chamber principle. You won't ever challenge your own beliefs so long as you don't here an opposing view. Fake news just reinforces lovely opinions even though the facts my be inaccurate. The intent of the article is enough for many people. From personal experience I used to be very homophobic and biased against minorities (ex-redpiller/MRA here) but the more exposure I had to those people the more I realized that my own beliefs were ethically wrong. I don't think that I would have made that change of heart had I consumed media that reinforced those beliefs. Would have been doubly true if I was reading patently false articles but never questioned them because it made me "feel good" about my own beliefs.
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If only there were some piece of legislation that would require journalists to report both sides of a story...
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CheeseSpawn posted:Alluding to the Fairness Doctrine or ......? Correct.
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