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Read More: #12: we need things to help us get closer to the truthMike Caufield, in his online book Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, writes: The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer…
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Read More: #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economyYouTube is a new kind of nation-state rooted in, and ruled by, self-aware performances about the rules and truths of its own conditions and practices. Like the internet it is…
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Read More: #9: YouTube is less platform than emerging internet nation-state#100truths-fakenews #9 is taken from John Herman’s “YouTube Monster: PewDiePie and His Populist Revolt,” NYTimes, February 16, 2017: For now, most of the biggest internet platforms are understood as venues…
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Read More: #6: today’s fixes to fake news are bogusToday’s saccharine hand-wringing and the too-late fixes erupting from the mouthpieces for the corporate, media, and political interests responsible for this mess are as bogus as Lonelygirl15. Lonelygirl15 was one…
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Read More: #5: #fakenews is logical outgrowth of web’s infrastructureOne post-election 2016 viral-wonder—the crisis of “fake news” in the wake of the 2016 presidential election—was a logical and necessary outgrowth of the web’s sordid infrastructure, prurient daily pleasures, and…
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Read More: #4: the internet is built on deceptions
Today’s internet is built on, with, and through an unruly sea of lies, deceptions, and distortions, as well as a few certainties, cables, and algorithms. At first blush, it may…
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Read More: #1: the real internet is a fakeTruth #1 is a deceptively simple start and intentionally so. It mirrors in its construction two organizing structures and conventions of the internet and the social media it spawns: namely,…