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Woland

@temptoetiam

So, after your sourcing: as a lefty, this post makes me mad and here's why:

Only one blurry source, from a blurry media, from a blurry journalist, with no other sources available

Trump admnistration is shitty enough, and does enough criminal things, to inform only the truth of it.

Sharing unsourced or not enough sourced, or not relable sources on our enemies shit will only strengthen them.

#Sourceyourwords#factchecking#FactChecks
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Nonilex

#Trump goes to war against real-time #FactChecks

The moves are the latest example of Trump’s long-held resistance to being called to account for his #lies.

Trump & his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against #FactChecking in recent months, pushing TV networks, #journalism orgs & others to abandon the practice if they hope to interact w/Trump.

#TrumpLies #disinformation #propaganda #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump wages campaign against real-time fact checksBy Ashley Parker
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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

On #MeetThePress, #Vance says MORE immigrant children are being separated under #Biden/#Harris than under #TFG.

How? (I'm guessing) he thinks parents are leaving their kids behind?

#Vance also claimed the only reason illegal #border crossings are down is b/c the gov't is now "flying illegal immigrants into the country. I don't want the gov't flying in #illegals!"

If they're being flown in, they aren't entering illegally. And prg is inactive. Welker actually #FactChecks Vance POST interview.

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Skeptical Science

Here's our latest coop product with Gigafact, a non-profit focused on providing starving newsrooms with ready access to #FactChecks. We're helping with matters of #ClimateChange. Per our usual philosophy our foundations lie on peer reviewed research.

Short and snappy is the rule here, a challenge with topics involving complexities. Here's how polar bears are endangered by our our clumsy climate catastrophe, in a nutshell. Long or short, it ain't a pretty picture.

skepticalscience.com/fact-brie

Gigafact/Skeptical Science fact check for "are polar bears endangered by climate change?" Text: Are polar bears endangered? Yes. Most polar bear populations could become extinct by 2100 if our greenhouse gas emissions continue. Polar bears are classed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They hunt seals, their main food source, from the Arctic sea-ice. Human-caused global warming has led to a rapid loss of that ice, making it harder for polar bears to catch enough prey to survive. There are 19 subpopulations of polar bears. According to the World Wildlife Fund in 2021, 3 were in decline, 4 were stable, 2 were increasing, and 10 were data-deficient. In 1973, the international community agreed to restrict polar bear hunting, which helps explain why the population is estimated to be higher today than it was in the 1970s. However, that does not change their long-term endangerment if the sea ice they require to hunt is allowed to continue to melt.
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Auscandoc

Framing #FactChecks as a “#confirmation” increases engagement with corrections of misinformation: a nature.com/articles/s41598-024 “Confirmation statements such as “it is TRUE that p” convey that the content is socially acceptable and less likely to expose users to public scrutiny and criticism. Tetlock coins the term “#IntuitivePolitician” to describe the behavior of risk-averse subjects who seek to preserve their reputation by aligning themselves with socially accepted positions”

NatureFraming fact-checks as a “confirmation” increases engagement with corrections of misinformation: a four-country study - Scientific ReportsPrevious research has extensively investigated why users spread misinformation online, while less attention has been given to the motivations behind sharing fact-checks. This article reports a four-country survey experiment assessing the influence of confirmation and refutation frames on engagement with online fact-checks. Respondents randomly received semantically identical content, either affirming accurate information (“It is TRUE that p”) or refuting misinformation (“It is FALSE that not p”). Despite semantic equivalence, confirmation frames elicit higher engagement rates than refutation frames. Additionally, confirmation frames reduce self-reported negative emotions related to polarization. These findings are crucial for designing policy interventions aiming to amplify fact-check exposure and reduce affective polarization, particularly in critical areas such as health-related misinformation and harmful speech.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@RollingStone

Repetition cannot create TRUTH,
but repetition can create BELIEF.

Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies.

That's why Trump & GOP keep repeating known lies
& why it's BAD for others to repeat those lies (especially in headlines or as the only text on #SocialMedia ).

Repeat something often enough, & even people who *know* better will start to doubt reality & believe the lies.

#Journalism #Journalists #Press
#Lies #FactChecks #News

Meme image of a "Daily News" newspaper Headline: REPETITION CANNOT CREATE TRUTH, BUT REPETITION CAN CREATE BELIEF. Photo of Trump in front of microphones on left Text on right: That's why Trump & the GOP keep repeating known lies. Repeat something often enough, and even people who *know™ better will start to doubt reality and believe the lies. Repetition cannot create TRUTH, but repetition can create BELIEF. That's why it's dangerous to repeat lies. Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies, unless you state the truth FIRST and REPEAT THE TRUTH TWICE AS OFTEN as you repeat the lies. Repetition cannot create TRUTH, but repetition can create BELIEF. watermark: ZmemeZ
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@RollingStone

Repetition cannot create TRUTH,
but repetition can create BELIEF.

Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies.

That's why Trump & GOP keep repeating known lies
& why it's BAD for others to repeat those lies (especially in headlines or as the only text on #SocialMedia ).

Repeat something often enough, & even people who *know* better will start to doubt reality & believe the lies.

#Journalism #Journalists
#Lies #FactChecks #News

Meme image of a "Daily News" newspaper Headline: REPETITION CANNOT CREATE TRUTH, BUT REPETITION CAN CREATE BELIEF. Photo of Trump in front of microphones on left Text on right: That's why Trump & the GOP keep repeating known lies. Repeat something often enough, and even people who *know™ better will start to doubt reality and believe the lies. Repetition cannot create TRUTH, but repetition can create BELIEF. That's why it's dangerous to repeat lies. Repeating lies, even to debunk them, can convince more people to believe the lies, unless you state the truth FIRST and REPEAT THE TRUTH TWICE AS OFTEN as you repeat the lies. Repetition cannot create TRUTH, but repetition can create BELIEF. watermark: ZmemeZ
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