Um, Breitbart news is hardly a credible site to use to attack Politifact. Besides, that citations also had Washington Post and The New York Times—do you call them fake news as well?
Washington Post and The New York Times—do you call them fake news as well?
Yes, as I mentioned in my other comment. Now care to explain why you cited them in an article supposedly devoted to opposing fake news. Or is your definition of “fake news”, news that contradicts something written in an “official true news source” as opposed to something that contradicts reality?
I think the real problem here is that the pejorative term “Fake news” is succumbing to an effect I mentioned down in the comments earlier.
if you did have a system for enforcing epistemological standards, the first thing everyone would think is “Wow that’s great, how can I subvert this system to further my object-level preferences?”
Now that’s not to say that there isn’t a real phenomenon of inaccurate or totally fabricated news, but I think the term “Fake News” (“Fake News Outlet”) particularly lends itself to being used as a bludgeon to attack the other side, because it’s really satisfying to catch one inaccurate story on a site you disagree with and thereby write the rest of the content off as “Fake News”.
Um, Breitbart news is hardly a credible site to use to attack Politifact. Besides, that citations also had Washington Post and The New York Times—do you call them fake news as well?
Yes, as I mentioned in my other comment. Now care to explain why you cited them in an article supposedly devoted to opposing fake news. Or is your definition of “fake news”, news that contradicts something written in an “official true news source” as opposed to something that contradicts reality?
I think the real problem here is that the pejorative term “Fake news” is succumbing to an effect I mentioned down in the comments earlier.
Now that’s not to say that there isn’t a real phenomenon of inaccurate or totally fabricated news, but I think the term “Fake News” (“Fake News Outlet”) particularly lends itself to being used as a bludgeon to attack the other side, because it’s really satisfying to catch one inaccurate story on a site you disagree with and thereby write the rest of the content off as “Fake News”.
“succumbing”? It succumbed to that effect decades ago.