<story><title>‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HSO</author><text>Speaking of, I saw a particularly blatant example yesterday:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;scottsantens&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1142442971922653184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;scottsantens&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1142442971922653184&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been following the Andrew Yang campaign since his appearance on the Joe Rogan show and so far as I can tell MSNBC has been at it for months now.&lt;p&gt;The gall still astonishes me: 20 candidates qualified for the debates, he now polls in the top 8 and betting markets even place him in the top five, and they substitute someone who did not even qualify for the debate for him.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>Second best. The best is selective reporting. Even if every story is reported 100% accurately and objectively, by choosing &lt;i&gt;which&lt;/i&gt; stories are promoted, and which buried, you can set any agenda you want.&lt;p&gt;Edit: See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;Causes-of-death-in-USA-vs.-media-coverage.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;Causes-of-death-i...&lt;/a&gt; for an example.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; fake news these days is the stuff that doesn&amp;#x27;t register even to people are read-in on the usual anti-patterns.&lt;p&gt;Subtle framing, selective quotation, anonymous sources, &amp;quot;repeat the lie&amp;quot; techniques, and so on, are the ones that I see happening today that are hard to immunize yourself from. Ironically, the people who fall for these are more likely to self-identify as being aware and clued in on how to avoid fake news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>They didn&amp;#x27;t replace him in the debate, the mistakenly omitted him from a graphic on screen and later corrected it.&lt;p&gt;He only barely cracked the top 8 as of two weeks ago, and with a paltry 2% with a net favorable of +8 in Monmouth&amp;#x27;s latest poll, which is not very good. I don&amp;#x27;t really know much about the guy, but he&amp;#x27;s not making much of a showing in the polls so I&amp;#x27;m not surprised that networks aren&amp;#x27;t focusing on him.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HSO</author><text>Speaking of, I saw a particularly blatant example yesterday:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;scottsantens&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1142442971922653184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;scottsantens&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1142442971922653184&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been following the Andrew Yang campaign since his appearance on the Joe Rogan show and so far as I can tell MSNBC has been at it for months now.&lt;p&gt;The gall still astonishes me: 20 candidates qualified for the debates, he now polls in the top 8 and betting markets even place him in the top five, and they substitute someone who did not even qualify for the debate for him.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>Second best. The best is selective reporting. Even if every story is reported 100% accurately and objectively, by choosing &lt;i&gt;which&lt;/i&gt; stories are promoted, and which buried, you can set any agenda you want.&lt;p&gt;Edit: See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;Causes-of-death-in-USA-vs.-media-coverage.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;Causes-of-death-i...&lt;/a&gt; for an example.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; fake news these days is the stuff that doesn&amp;#x27;t register even to people are read-in on the usual anti-patterns.&lt;p&gt;Subtle framing, selective quotation, anonymous sources, &amp;quot;repeat the lie&amp;quot; techniques, and so on, are the ones that I see happening today that are hard to immunize yourself from. Ironically, the people who fall for these are more likely to self-identify as being aware and clued in on how to avoid fake news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanniabu</author><text>Yup, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that too. Unfortunately it seems he&amp;#x27;s making too much sense and others are trying to bury him by not covering him. It was a breath of fresh air when I discovered him. I&amp;#x27;m somebody that absolutely hates politics because everyone&amp;#x27;s saying what people want to hear just to get votes rather and only talking about issues at surface level. You can sense the sincerity in Yang&amp;#x27;s voice, he&amp;#x27;s not a lifetime politician, he comes from a social work background, he&amp;#x27;s going after real root-cause issues, provides data to back up his arguments, talks about issues instead of trying to gain popularity by demeaning the opponent, etc etc.</text></comment>