8mo ago

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

www.theguardian.com

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Shocked Pikachu.
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Water is wet.
Today on: Why does reality have woke leftist bias?
The left-right vs factual score is quite interesting
- So the title should say that right wing and centrist sources are less factual than left wing ones.
  
  I'm not sure whether that difference is statistically significant though since there are only a couple of left sources included.
- I scanned the study and couldn't figure out what a negative factual score means, it only talks about factuality being rated from 0 to 1.
  
  Figure 1. Association between factuality score adjusted by country mean, parties’ left-right ideology (right), and populism (middle), and government participation (left) with 95% confidence intervals.
  I think this means that the y axis represents the deviation from the mean score, not the actual 'factuality score'.
- What's the fit?
I too have watched republican debates.
A more important issue is not "fake news" but rather highly biased and tightly framed news that purports to be neutral. The hegemonic narrative is actually extremely biased but never criticized. This is completely normalized and widespread in the imperial core, especially among both flavors of politicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
What? Being on the right shows you lack basic critical thinking skills or are conning people?
But i thought both were as bad as the other one.
- I always like the "they're both the same" people who say things like, "they would oppress queer people too if they had the power!" And then you point out that they did have the power and didn't do anything near to the level the right does and they just shoo you away like a fly.
- Yes, but Hitler was a communist so it really is the same, or something!
So far right populists, against far left populusts? No, against "left".
I bet far right populists lie more than any non-populists.
- Left will rather lose to fascists than do populism.
Fake news spread includes "both sides are the same"
Cool....coolcoolcool....so, now put your time and effort into REPORTING WHAT WE DONT ALL ALREADY KNOW, FFS.

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